Green and Free [Marriage Before Love]

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[Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong series, Beijing Arc 2.0]

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Soft, timid college student × poised, powerful Beijing power player

[Marriage Before Love / strangers in public, kissing passionately in private / six-year age gap / sweet fairy tale]

1.

In her senior year of college, before she’d even received her diploma, Yun Mian got a marriage certificate.

Her new husband was breathtakingly handsome and refined, a dignified and steady man. He was the powerful head of the Cheng Group, and the boss of her boss at the company where she was interning.

The third time Yun Mian met Cheng Shulin, it was pouring rain at night.

She was holding the resume that had just been returned to her and waiting for a bus at the stop. Seeing that the rain wouldn’t let up, she threw caution to the wind and flagged down a Maybach, hoping for a ride.

Drenched from head to toe, she seemed completely out of place in the car. Yun Mian carefully kept her arms close so she wouldn’t dirty anything, never expecting that

The man would drape his priceless coat over her shoulders and ask, “Have you thought about getting married?”

“To me.”

2.

A marriage of convenience, a couple bound by contract.

Yun Mian played her part to perfection.

At the company, she and Cheng Shulin acted like strangers, keeping things strictly professional. She even insisted they couldn’t go home together.

One day at work, Yun Mian accidentally picked up the wrong bag. Her supervisor deliberately made things difficult for her and held up her work, sarcastically asking in front of everyone in the department how a poor student could afford a 200,000-yuan Kelly bag.

Everyone immediately started gossiping, spreading rumors that she was being kept by a rich man and had learned to take the wrong path at such a young age.

Then Cheng Shulin arrived and shut down the rumors with one sentence: “Do I need your approval to buy anything for Mrs. Cheng?”

The normally aloof man held her in his arms when she had a fever, gently resting his forehead against hers and comforting her softly. “Let’s go home.”

Everyone stood there, stunned: Mrs... Cheng??!!!

3.

Later, in the middle of the night, her ex-boyfriend called Yun Mian to ask for another chance.

“Who is it...”

The young woman was barely awake. When she opened her eyes, she saw Cheng Shulin switch on speakerphone and toss the phone onto the bedside table. His hand held her chin as he kissed her until she could barely breathe.

“Cheng Shulin...” Yun Mian called him by his full name, letting out a soft whimper as she tried to stop him. “That’s the third one you’ve torn...”

The man drew her into his arms, his voice low. “Baby, I’ll pay for as many as you want.”

Note:

1. Sweet, sweet, sweet!

2. The heroine has had one ex-boyfriend.

3. One-on-one romance / both leads are sexually inexperienced / happy ending.

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Coming soon: Ashen Mist [Marriage Before Love]

[Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong series, Shanghai Arc.

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Bright, spoiled heiress × calculating, haughty mixed-race dom

[Marriage Before Love / size difference / six-year age gap / groveling after losing her]

1.

At a high-society gathering,

Xie Ting found herself staring intently at a man for the first time.

“You’re really focused on him,” her friend joked when she noticed Xie Ting’s unwavering gaze. “What, are you interested in him?”

“When did you start liking old men?”

Xie Ting’s lips curved into a smile.

She wasn’t interested in his age, but his face was decent.

“My fiancé.” The wine in her glass tilted slightly as she swirled it. Xie Ting raised an eyebrow, unconcerned. “Our families arranged it. I’ll make do.”

That very night, she paid for her moment of careless honesty.

The man pinned her against a wall, gripping her shoulders as he kissed her. After nearly leaving her breathless, Fu Jing’an looked down at her, his emotions hidden beneath a smile. “Miss Xie, your kissing is pretty average too.”

2.

They both knew this was nothing more than a marriage arranged for the benefit of their families.

After the wedding, they kept their distance, each getting what they needed.

But she crossed the line.

She had underestimated Fu Jing’an.

Fu Jing’an remembered all her preferences and prepared surprises for her. On her birthday, he lit up the dark Beijing sky with 9,999 drones. “Nannan, happy birthday.”

Until one day, a friend came to see Fu Jing’an about something.

Outside the study, Xie Ting was about to open the door when she heard the voice that whispered in her ear day and night turn utterly cold, as if he were idly toying with some insignificant little object:

“I chose her because she has her uses, and it’s not just the marriage.”

Suddenly she remembered what he’d said on her birthday: “Nannan, happy birthday.”

Right. He said happy birthday, not I love you.

Later, when Fu Jing’an found her again, Xie Ting was a different person from before.

She shed her sweet, innocent facade and looked coldly at the man begging for forgiveness in the freezing rain. She only tossed out one lighthearted sentence: “Mr. Fu, we’re already divorced.”

-Mist is gray, yet I sank into it, lost in its depths.

Note:

1. Older hero, the heroine grows, and the powerful man begs for love.

2. The hero gets put through angst. I want to write a story that really puts him through it.

3. One-on-one romance / both leads are sexually inexperienced / happy ending.

Coming soon: Falling Into Dusk [Second Chance Romance]

[Beijing-Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong series, Shenzhen Arc.

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Quiet and well-behaved × sharp-tongued, insincere young gentleman

[Unrequited love on her side / second chance romance / bittersweet push and pull / deeply in love with each other]

1.

Back in school, Jin Zexu was flamboyant and unruly, adored by everyone. He was the top student who repeatedly took first place on the honor roll, and the bad student teachers complained about for smoking and fighting.

Countless girls liked him, including Li Wanyin.

The night Li Wanyin first met Jin Zexu, thin mist shrouded the entire city.

The damp alley reeked, and a group of vicious young men had her cornered with nowhere to run. Just as they started beating her, a tall figure stepped in front of her and put an end to their harassment. The young man’s dark eyes were cold and stern. He looked at the begging thugs as though they were filth. His voice was emotionless: “You’ve got a death wish?”

The previous second, he was full of menace. The next, he put away his sharp edges and comforted her. “Don’t be afraid.”

They say the love you feel at seventeen is often the most passionate.

But her love was just a one-person show.

2.

Li Wanyin believes that she and Jin Zexu are completely different people, two parallel lines that should never have crossed. When she tries to set things back on the right track, she realizes it’s too late.

One sentence from her, ending their relationship, broke his pride.

“Li Wanyin.” Jin Zexu forced down the turmoil surging within him and finally spoke harshly to her. “I don’t want to see you again for the rest of my life.”

Years later, they meet again.

Jin Zexu still stands at the top, surrounded by all kinds of people trying to make conversation. He listens to their empty words with an indifferent expression, then gets up to leave.

By chance, he runs into Li Wanyin, who has come looking for him. Jin Zexu keeps a polite distance. The deep, affectionate gaze he once had is now filled with cold detachment. “Miss Li, excuse me.”

Li Wanyin’s throat tightens. She knows he doesn’t love her anymore.

But she doesn’t know that their reunion is something he meticulously planned.

3.

At the end of December, snow falls in Shenzhen.

After a sleepless night, Li Wanyin goes to the balcony to pass the time and notices that several late-blooming camellias in the greenhouse are at their fullest, as flawless as feathers.

As she stares at them, a pair of arms wraps around her waist. His chin rests gently against her neck, his voice low and pleading: “Don’t leave me again.”

“Please.”

-Of all the flowers in the world, he loves only that late-blooming camellia.

Note:

1. High school and modern-day sections, mostly set in the present. They reunite at the beginning.

2. One-on-one romance / both leads are sexually inexperienced / happy ending, first love for both.

Theme: Stand in the sunlight.