Falling in Love Again [Marriage Before Love]

Work's been too busy, so updates will be irregular, but I promise I'll finish it. I'll try to save up more chapters before updating.

[1]

As their mentor's two favorite students, Ren Shu and He Yiheng were introduced with the hope that they'd make a good match.

The man was cool and dignified, sitting by the window with his long legs crossed. One glance was all it took for him to perfectly match the figure in Ren Shu's mind.

After the blind date, she messaged her teacher to politely turn down the match: "He's a great person, but we're not right for each other. Sorry, Teacher Xu, for letting you down."

Later one night, Ren Shu sat on the kitchen counter, with He Yiheng's wrinkled white shirt beneath her. His muscular arms held her tightly. Their foreheads touched as he leaned closer, their breaths mingling. With an intimate languor, he brushed aside the damp hair that had fallen against her lips and played with it in his long fingers. "How are we not right for each other, junior?"

Dazed with desire, she replied, "We're perfect for each other! We're made for each other!"

[2]

Ten years ago, she was a nobody. Even with his friend beside her, all she said was a polite, "Hello, senior. I'm Ren Shu from Class 3, Grade 10."

He responded with a courtesy so formal it sounded robotic: "He Yiheng, Class 1, Grade 12."

One day ten years later, He Yiheng found himself blocked by Ren Shu. He shamelessly tried to add her again, pleading in the verification message:

"Wifey, Shushu, Xiaoshu, darling, my sweet Shu! It's me, your husband!"

"Wifey, add me back. If you do, I'll be your servant for the rest of the night."

"Babe? Can we make up? I have money."

"Sweetheart, I want dessert, but I don't want the dessert you're serving me: the cold shoulder."

[3]

In the comments section of a new novel by the well-known online writer "Yusheuhs," someone wrote: "Where have you been studying lately, author? The leads have been getting more and more lovey-dovey."

It was one among many unserious comments, but the author unexpectedly replied: "I used to only hear about pork, but now I've tasted it."

He Yiheng dug up the comment and asked her, "Tell us, Great Writer Ren: what does pork taste like?"

"The name she wrote on a foggy window as a girl appeared in the same household register as hers when they grew up."

"Every time she appears, he falls for her all over again."

An unconventional marriage-before-love story, reunited after a long separation.

A cold, distant CEO in public and a shameless simp in private x a sharp-tongued, chatty novelist who takes life easy. Both have had exes, but neither has been intimate with anyone else.

Blurb revised on 2023/09/20

Please add my upcoming novel, Paroxetine [Showbiz], to your reading list.

After returning to the public eye five years later, Gu Yu is praised by everyone: "As long as she has her face, the world is hers."

But no one remembers that she was once just a snowflake.

At an awards ceremony backstage interview, she was covered in honors.

The reporter asked, "Over the past few years, there have been many online rumors that you left showbiz and secretly got married. Are they true?"

She looked at the trophy in her hands and her bare ring finger, then smiled and denied it.

But the reporter pressed on: "Over these five years, have you kept in touch with any old friends? For example, Jin Chen, who worked with you before?"

She changed the subject. Only after the interview ended did she casually say, "I forgot to answer that last question. We're not close."

-

During a variety show's punishment round, a bucket of water was suddenly dumped on them.

In the eyes of outsiders, Jin Chen gallantly wrapped his arms around Gu Yu to shield her from the water.

But Gu Yu heard him whisper, "Don't be afraid."

In her dazed state, she seemed to return to that chaotic scene from years ago.

A bucket of cold water poured over her head cleared her thoughts. She stepped back half a pace. "Afraid of what? Teacher Jin, you think rather highly of yourself."

-

After a wild night, Gu Yu went into the mountains to film.

Meanwhile, Jin Chen rushed in and out of the awards ceremony. A reporter asked what had him in such a hurry.

His eyes were full of affection and helplessness. "I'm in a hurry to comfort my girlfriend. I've lost her."

Before the reporter could ask anything, he calmly dropped another bombshell: "My girlfriend's name is Gu Yu. If anyone knows where she is, please tell me."

P.S. Two actors, reunited after a long separation, rekindling an old romance, one-on-one, both inexperienced, happy ending.

Blurb captured on 2023.1.25

Theme: Even amid the mess of everyday life, there are love stories worthy of a fairy tale.