A Perfect Heartbeat [Marriage Before Love]

*Coming next: Hurricane Butterfly [Reunion After Years Apart]

The Yu family found the daughter they had lost many years ago and threw a lavish celebration that lasted several days.

But as soon as the reunion festivities were over, they hurried their newly recovered daughter over to the Qin family home and demanded that the old family betrothal be honored.

Her intended was the Qin family's youngest son. Everyone in their circle knew him as a spoiled, unruly boy who'd been indulged since childhood, a bona fide little demon king.

On the night he learned he was getting married, Young Master Qin knocked on Yu Man's door and said with a stern face, "Three rules: a marriage of convenience, and a divorce when the term is up."

Yu Man shut the door in his face without changing expression.

Young Master Qin: ?

He'd never suffered such humiliation in his life!

*

Yu Man had grown up in a small town. She'd lived in a drafty house and crossed icy rivers in thin clothes during winter.

She was a girl with an iron will.

She thought life would get better after she returned home, but she never expected to be sent away like a piece of merchandise.

On the hundredth day of her marriage, Yu Man's half sister mocked her, saying that even after coming home, she wouldn't get anything, and that marrying Qin Lixing would only end with her being abandoned.

Just as she finished speaking, the youngest son of the Qin family pushed open the door with a cigarette between his lips. Through the smoke, he asked, "Are you done talking? I'm here to take my wife home."

Late that night at the Qin home, Qin Lixing held Yu Man, who'd woken from a nightmare. His face showed a tenderness and affection she'd never seen before. "Don't be afraid. I'll protect you."

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Yu Man was someone walking alone through the desert. She had nothing, until one day she came across an oasis meant just for her.

* The characters aren't perfect

Coming next

Title: Uncontrollable Love. Reunion after years apart / Rekindled love / Untouchable beauty turns into a mad dog

Blurb: When Liang Bai was young, she was a failing student who never studied. She was brash and outspoken, and couldn't stand those top students who dressed impeccably and excelled at everything.

Xie Jinyan was the one she targeted most.

Everyone at school knew those two were like kings who couldn't share a mountain, but nobody knew that on the evening after the college entrance exams, Liang Bai had risen onto her toes and carefully kissed him in a dim alley.

As an adult, Xie Jinyan had transformed into the CEO of the Xie Group.

He kept up the air of a refined, chaste, untouchable beauty, until he saw the bad girl who'd had her way with him and then left him.

But as she grew up, Liang Bai shed her sharp edges and brashness. She drifted with the tide, vanished into the crowd, and became an unremarkable face among millions.

At a gathering, a colleague asked her what the boldest thing she'd done in her twenty-some years was.

Liang Bai thought for a moment. "Dumping my first love?"

The colleague asked what she'd do if she had the chance to do one more daring thing.

Liang Bai was silent for a moment. "Dump him again?"

A passerby behind them gave a cold laugh. Everyone turned to look. It was Xie Jinyan, their business partner.

*

Liang Bai had just arrived home late at night when someone pulled her into an embrace.

The person behind her wrapped his arms tightly around her waist, resting his chin in the hollow of her shoulder. His voice was even as he asked, "Liang Bai, am I someone you can summon whenever you want and dismiss whenever you please?"

Liang Bai: ...

Liang Bai: Could you let go of me before saying that?

Theme: Be brave and love yourself