The Etiquette of Stolen Kisses [Marriage Before Love]

Next up: The Vicious Hound's Virtues. Please add it to your reading list~ ★Amnesia from the start | Pregnancy before love | Passionate push and pull | Enemies to lovers ●Defiant black-swan mom × fake celibate, gloomy scoundrel Also known as: After Losing My Memory, I Got Pregnant with My Nemesis's Baby... Bei Qian, the sole daughter of the wealthy Bei family, has been arrogant and impossible to control since childhood, a wicked rebel who refuses to be tamed. The person she hates most in this life is the young heir to Shanghai's elite, Song Yanzhen, who lives right across the hall from her. The Bei and Song patriarchs have been enemies for years. Their families never crossed paths. Bei Qian has always known Song Yanzhen hates her. From primary school through university, he opposed her at every turn and outshone her in every way. Bei Qian can't stand his cold, aristocratic air either. He looks immaculate and dazzling, handsome beyond compare, but in truth he's cold-hearted and sharp-tongued, aloof and antisocial, arrogant to the core. But the world of high society isn't that big, and they keep running into each other at gatherings with mutual friends. Every time, it's like fate has thrown them together again, and they're at each other's throats. 1. Who could have guessed that a sudden car accident would wipe out five years of Bei Qian's memories? When she wakes, she sees Song Yanzhen sitting beside her hospital bed. His voice is hoarse as he says, "Bei Bei, I'll take responsibility." Bei Qian immediately sits up and points at him, shouting, "I knew it was you who hit me, you bastard!" "I mean the baby in your belly." He catches her hand. "Ours." Bei Qian: "?" His voice is cool and steady. "We're not getting divorced anymore." Bei Qian: "...??" 2. Bei Qian is sure she must have been crazy sometime in the past five years to marry Song Yanzhen and get pregnant by him. Determined to figure out what happened, she demands that he recreate familiar scenes with her to jog her memory. "Your favorite place has always been my study," he says. Bei Qian sits on his cold wooden desk, haughty and disdainful as she looks around. "I used to work and study here?" He gives her a strange sidelong look and falls silent for a moment before answering, "No." "This is where we conceived our little Bei Bei." Bei Qian: "..." 3. After the baby is born, Song Yanzhen takes meticulous, patient care of them both, day after day, leaving no detail unattended. No one could find fault with him. Bei Qian thinks that maybe, over the past five years, their hatred really did turn to love, and that amid their peaceful life together, their bond as husband and wife has grown stronger. Until she happens to find a photograph in his bookcase: herself posing with another boy. She is smiling brightly in the picture, but the boy's face... has been slashed beyond recognition, countless knife marks carved into it. Dried, dark-red liquid looks like blood streaming down his ruined face. The memories come flooding back, and Bei Qian is horrified. She wastes no time in leaving the father behind and taking the child with her. But no matter what she does, she can't escape Song Yanzhen's control. When he catches her during another escape attempt, Bei Qian finally breaks down and screams: "You lied to me! My husband before all this wasn't you!" The madman is still impeccably dressed, smiling elegantly as he gazes at her with a dark, feverish look. "So you've remembered, Bei Bei." "I stole you and the baby." My favorite stolen treasures. ■■Content warnings■■ 1. The blurb uses an unreliable narrative from the heroine's point of view, and the truth is more complicated. The novel explains it. 2. The baby is the hero's biological child. 3. One-on-one romance, both leads have only been with each other. Blurb saved on 2025.4.21 ---Next up: The Vicious Hound's Virtues. Blurb below. ★Foster-family romance | Gloomy madness | Intense push and pull | Expert dog trainer Gentle, brilliant, hearing-impaired good girl Outwardly sunny and carefree ^ inwardly gloomy, debauched mixed-race older brother Wen Jiayao's hearing was damaged by a high fever when she was young, so her family used their connections to send her abroad to study and recuperate. On her first day at her host family's home, she is unpacking alone in her new room when a lithe figure suddenly climbs in through the terrace. Pale skin catches the eye, his features are sharply defined, and his athletic body is taut and glistening after exercise, radiating the untamed elegance of nobility. The boy is 1.9 meters tall. His deep blue eyes narrow with a smile, and his voice is both arrogant and curious: "A Chinese kitten?" / Jin Wang is the most eye-catching celebrity at State University. A handsome Chinese-American mixed-race student with a trim waist and long legs, he is always at the center of the basketball court and every party. His athleticism and academic talent are as exceptional as his looks, and he was born to command attention. Everyone knows Jin Wang dotes on the younger girl staying at his family's estate. He has custom-made expensive hearing aids for her, learned sign language for her, and even washes her intimate clothes himself, despite being a Wall Street prince. Only Wen Jiayao knows that beneath his dazzling exterior lies a vicious, gloomy hound. "Didn't I tell you not to cry when we kiss?" Tears hang on her face. "Brother, I have the right to say no..." "You don't. You can only have me." He is brazen, and rotten to the core. Wen Jiayao struggles to endure life in the shadow of his possessive, sinister obsession. So, after her hearing is restored, she goes to great lengths to secretly book a ticket home. She leaves without a word, decisive and resolute. - Years after returning home, Wen Jiayao has become a translator. Her life is quiet and fulfilling, until she takes a job accompanying her employer to negotiate with an overseas corporation. The moment she sees the man seated across the conference table, she feels as though she's plunged into an icy abyss. He is still dazzling and polished, chatting and laughing with everyone, but his expression is indifferent, and his gaze doesn't linger on her for even a second. Wen Jiayao assumes Jin Wang has lost interest in her too, and finally lets out a breath of relief. After several rounds of drinks in the second half of the meeting, Wen Jiayao drifts off. When she wakes, she finds herself lying in a dim room. Her torn stockings lie crumpled on the floor, and the bite marks on her waist are warm and aching. "You forgot to break up with me when you ran away, Yaoyao." The man raises his head from her waist and stares at her, his blue eyes glinting in the darkness, alive with barely concealed excitement and madness. "Just kidding. Even if you had, I still wouldn't have let you go." "How about we skip the wedding and go straight to being buried together?" Theme: Love is sweetest when the two are evenly matched.