A Confession After Marriage

My next novel will have the same tropes, an arranged marriage turning to love × unrequited love becoming mutual: A New Marriage on a Spring Night. The blurb is at the very end. Please check it out in my collection if you'd like to support it!

[Arranged Marriage Turning to Love × Unrequited Love Becoming Mutual]

The news of the Shi and Gu families' marriage alliance broke with little warning.

One was a cold, distinguished, ruthless heir to the family business; the other, a wealthy young woman who was bold and rebellious for years.

Their personalities were so different that no one in their circle had any faith in the marriage.

Everyone assumed that this alliance, bound together by mutual interests, would fall apart within a few years.

Until, at an auction, Shi Chuo, one of the people involved, bid on one expensive piece of jewelry after another. His friend beside him couldn't sit still and pressed him for an explanation.

The man's smile was faint. "They're for making someone happy. Otherwise, I'll have to sleep in the study again tonight."

/

When they first got their marriage license, Gu Yifeng couldn't have cared less about her bargain-bin husband.

When people asked, she would even wave a hand and say with a look of disdain, "Marrying him was a raw deal for me."

Over time, everyone came to believe that screenwriter Gu was enduring a humiliating marriage, forced to get the license for some undisclosed reason.

They even imagined a face so hard to describe they couldn't put it into words.

Then one day, a Bentley whose license plate alone was worth seven figures pulled up outside the film studio.

A young man stood in front of the car.

He was tall and lean, with refined, handsome features. Every gesture carried an effortless air of nobility.

Before the onlookers could gossip about which young actress had such a powerful man backing her, they saw the supposedly long-suffering screenwriter Gu sprint straight toward him without a word.

As a row of eyes widened, Gu Yifeng complained, "You're late."

Shi Chuo smiled and naturally took Ms. Gu's bag. "So how should I make it up to you, Mrs. Shi?"

/

When Gu Yifeng learned that Shi's birthday was coming up, she went to hide a present in his study so she could surprise him.

She unexpectedly found a small box tucked deep in the bookcase.

When she opened it, she found a photograph from four years earlier.

The girl in the picture was her at eighteen.

On the back, in familiar, elegant handwriting, were the words:

"I want this rose to be mine alone."

Beneath the photo were four unsent letters, all brimming with love.

The names he used for her on the envelopes changed from "Little Rose" to "Miss Gu" and then to "Fiancee."

The newest one was dated the day they got their marriage license.

He had addressed her as Mrs. Shi.

[Capital City Young Master × Shanghai Wild Rose]

#He fell for her like a wildfire the moment they first met#

Also known as: I Thought I Had the Arranged-Marriage-Turning-to-Love Script, but His Was Unrequited Love Becoming Mutual

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one, both leads' first relationship, HE, light and sweet, pure fluff!

2. The female lead is a screenwriter, not a celebrity!!! There isn't much about the entertainment industry; the focus is on everyday life.

3. A mountain of creative liberties, all in the name of fun.

Coming next: A New Marriage on a Spring Night, a super-sweet arranged marriage turning to love × unrequited love becoming mutual!

[Arranged Marriage Turning to Love | Unrequited Love Becoming Mutual | Four-Year Age Gap]

Beautiful, spoiled heiress who gets away with everything × Possessive family patriarch

As the cherished daughter raised by the Chen family, Chen Shuangjian had always known she had a childhood engagement to a man chosen by the family.

They had never met, but his playboy reputation had already reached Hong Kong. One scandal, in which he had supposedly flown into a rage over a beauty, had become common knowledge. Plenty of people in their circle were waiting to see the heiress come to ruin.

But two months later, at a lavish wedding on an island, the invited guests stared in shock

Wait, wasn't the groom supposed to be the notorious playboy, Second Young Master Xie?

This was clearly Xie Jingyun, the aloof, untouchable heir to the Xie Group and eldest son of the Xie family!

/

The Xie family of the capital was famous, and Xie Jingyun, the eldest grandson of his generation, was exceptional even among his peers.

Detached and discreet, he wielded an iron hand. At a young age, he had already cleared away all obstacles and risen to the top, with no equal in sight.

When he learned his younger brother had missed his meeting with the Chen heiress because of a hangover, Xie Jingyun had no choice but to go alone for the sake of relations between their families.

But Chen Shuangjian mistook him for someone else. Before he could introduce himself, she thrust a breakup agreement at him and said coldly, "Let's end the engagement. It'll be better for both of us."

Without even glancing at the agreement, Xie Jingyun stopped in front of her and lowered his gaze. He recognized her face, and within seconds acted on an absurd impulse.

"The engagement between the Chen and Xie families was arranged by our elders. If you don't like this match, there's another way."

Chen Shuangjian blinked. "What do you mean?"

The man raised a hand and covered the name that resembled his own. His fingertips came to rest close against hers. "I mean, we can change the groom."

/

When people dug up the fact that Xie Jingyun had acquired the top-grade red diamond in Chen Shuangjian's wedding ring two years earlier, they combined it with what he had said back then and branded the marriage "prepackaged romance."

Even Chen Shuangjian herself began to wonder. Driven by curiosity, she tried to find proof of her suspicions.

Instead, she found a photograph from seven years earlier on Xie Jingyun's computer.

The background showed a house shaking in an earthquake aftershock. At the center of the frame, the twenty-year-old Xie Jingyun was battered, bruised, and disheveled.

Chen Shuangjian immediately recognized the unconscious girl on his back. It was her.

Later, she finally understood the verse he'd deliberately encrypted and hidden in the oil painting in his study:

"In every day and night you've forgotten me, there hasn't been a moment when I didn't miss you."

[Beautiful, Spoiled Little Vixen × Tender, Devoted Daddy-Type]

Reader's Guide:

1. Both leads' first relationship, HE.

2. Includes an amnesia trope.

Theme: Never give up on yourself for anyone