Just Find Someone to Marry

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[B-king secretly in love, second male lead rises to the top]

After years together, Yu Tan realized she could never find a way into her boyfriend's heart.

While they were engaged, she discovered him leaving a message for his first love: How am I ever supposed to forget you?

Yu Tan: Don't forget. Go find your first love!

Yu Tan ended the engagement decisively, only to be scolded by her relatives for being unreasonable.

She was tired. Yu Tan just wanted to marry anyone.

She messaged her childhood friend online: [Hey, how about we just settle for each other?]

One second after sending it:

Xie Zhiyu: [You think being with me is settling?]

Yu Tan: [No, no! A young master like you has a mansion and a luxury car. How could that be settling? I'm way out of my league!]

Xie Zhiyu: [Bring your household registration book. Come downstairs. We're getting married.]

Yu Tan: [???]

And just like that, they impulsively got married.

*

One night, Yu Tan's ex-boyfriend finally realized he still loved her and prepared to ask her to get back together.

But when the door opened, it was Xie Zhiyu, the investor!

Wearing a bathrobe, with a red mark on his neck, Xie Zhiyu gave him a knowing smile. "Looking for my wife?"

Then Yu Tan's coquettish complaints came from inside the room, making the situation clear enough.

*

One morning, after their secret marriage had been exposed, Yu Tan got out of bed feeling achy all over and accidentally overheard Xie Zhiyu talking to someone on the phone.

The young master was watering flowers on the balcony, a cigarette between his lips, holding his phone with his shoulder in a thoroughly unrestrained manner. "I wouldn't trade her for all the gold and silver in the world. I only want Yu Tan."

Yu Tan looked speechless. Honestly, there was no need to exaggerate so much just to put on a fake display of affection!

Later on,

Yu Tan happened to find an old book on the bookshelf. It was the eighteenth-birthday gift she'd given Xie Zhiyu.

The pages were nearly worn through from being read. On the last page, Xie Zhiyu had written in bold, sweeping script: [Yu Tan, you blockhead, when are you going to turn around and look at me?]

*

Blurb written in April 2022. Check out the author's other completed novel of the same type, You Can't Hope to Marry Up.

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Tang Zhinian was the daughter of the Yu family's housekeeper. The family's mansion was like a maze, and she moved into it with her mother.

On her first day, Tang Zhinian saw the family's most beloved son playing basketball in the backyard.

Yu Shen was seventeen then, in the prime of his youth, with an irresistibly charming face.

Before long, Tang Zhinian became Yu Shen's personal little housekeeper.

When Yu Shen couldn't be bothered to do his homework, Tang Zhinian did it for him.

When Yu Shen was too lazy to turn down love letters, Tang Zhinian played the bad guy.

When Yu Shen wanted desserts from a shop more than ten kilometers away, Tang Zhinian went out in the pouring rain to buy them...

Like that, Tang Zhinian diligently served as his little housekeeper for an entire year, saving quite a bit of money along the way.

One night before the college entrance exam, Yu Shen told Tang Zhinian to work hard and get into the famous university with him.

Tang Zhinian cheerfully said, "Sure, sure, sure."

On the first day of college, Tang Zhinian left without a word, carrying her luggage to the school farthest from Yu Shen, at the opposite end of the country.

No one knew that the day before school started, Tang Zhinian had not only kissed Yu Shen, but slept with him too.

*

They met again a few years later.

Tang Zhinian switched jobs and applied to be a manager's secretary at a company, where she ran into Yu Shen.

Yu Shen was the company's president.

Theme: Don't let society's prejudices bother you.