Luring You to Ruin

Crossing Time to Fall in Love [Marriage Before Love] is complete! Mutual pining!

Su Shu was the most sought-after marriage partner in Beicheng, with delicate features, an excellent family background, and a gentle disposition.

When she was twenty, disaster struck out of nowhere, and the Su family went bankrupt.

The court summons arrived one night beneath a pitch-black sky and a cold drizzle.

The usually elegant Su Shu crouched by the roadside, distraught, her face pale, looking like a stray dog.

A blinding pair of headlights swept over her.

Su Shu looked up a moment too late, meeting a pair of dark eyes.

Fu Xingzhi wore only a thin black shirt. He looked down at her from a short distance, his posture casual and his expression indifferent.

The man was very tall. Even when he bent down, Su Shu had to strain to look up, and all she could see was the sharp, pale line of his chin.

Then she heard him drawl,

"Are you coming with me?"

Fu Xingzhi, head of the richest family in Beicheng, the Fu family, was famous for his free-spirited arrogance and aloof, noble bearing. No one dared approach him.

He was invincible in business, ruthless in his methods, and never believed in gods or Buddhas. He had no reverence for anything.

When he brought home the girl eight years his junior, his childhood betrothed, at his grandfather's request, Fu Xingzhi paid little attention to her and treated her like a younger sister.

Until

She left without a word.

Only then did he understand that the person he had thought he could take or leave,

had never been him.

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Noble, brooding older man x kind, sweet girl fallen on hard times

A man who talks himself into love x aloof troublemaker x little princess who doesn't realize how seductive she is

Both each other's first love | Eight-year age gap | Two-person romance

Sweet, no angst | An unconventional healing story | Shu

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Crossing Time to Fall in Love [Marriage Before Love], a Marriage Before Love story where secret love becomes real, is complete~

Wen Ning was the fake heiress switched at birth into the Wen family. She was kicked out at fifteen, then found and brought back at twenty-five to stand in for the real heiress in a marriage alliance with the Chen family.

The Chen family was a century-old elite clan in Rongcheng, an influential power with deep roots in three realms. But its heir was a notorious playboy, and everyone avoided him.

The day before registering their marriage, Wen Ning discovered that her groom was Chen Yuzhou.

He was the boy who had once rescued her from dire straits. When they parted, he became the enemy she never wanted to see again.

Living under the same roof, Wen Ning went along with his wishes, forgot the past, and conscientiously played the role of a good roommate, waiting for their agreed time to pass so they could divorce.

Until one drunken night.

Wen Ning scrambled up from the bed, sore all over. When she met the man's bright black eyes, she finally realized

This marriage might not be ending after all.

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When Chen Yuzhou found the divorce agreement, he was unexpectedly calm. Without changing expression, he fed the few thin sheets of paper into the shredder.

As if nothing had happened.

That night, Wen Ning was held in his arms, tears blurring her eyes.

Sensing that something was wrong with him, she had barely begun to comfort him when her words fell apart.

When she finally managed to ask, Chen Yuzhou coolly said it was nothing, but his movements were fierce.

As her consciousness blurred at last, she felt a gentle kiss land on her forehead and heard a voice filled with humble pleading:

"Wife, don't leave me again."

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Only the moonlight that night knew.

The man who had always been arrogant and carefree had shed every shred of pride and broken his own spirit. He had staked his entire fortune and spent a whole night kneeling in the rain just to win a marriage that nobody believed in.

"My marriage to you is the greatest gamble I've ever made."

[Bonus Scene]

After the joint entrance exam, Chen Yuzhou's academically hopeless desk mate confidently asked to borrow his paper to check the answers.

He glanced at him and impatiently tossed over the paper.

Half an hour later.

The struggling student stared at him with a complicated expression. "Brother Zhou, Wen Ning probably likes someone with good grades, like the class monitor. At the very least, someone in the top ten..."

What he meant was:

Get a damn clue.

Chen Yuzhou's ears turned bright red. He turned away and stubbornly retorted, "Am I that bad? Are they as handsome as me? And what Wen Ning likes is none of my business!"

The struggling student secretly rolled his eyes and pointed emphatically at the paper.

The essay prompt was covered in densely packed writing

Every last word was Wen Ning's name.

"Chen Yuzhou likes Wen Ning."

"Does Wen Ning even know?"

#An arrogant guy who's hard-mouthed about everything except one thing x a sweet girl who's always a beat slow to catch on

#Marriage Before Love from both perspectives, but really, they secretly love each other

#Mostly urban life, with flashbacks to school days

#Healing and growth | Both each other's first love | The tabloid gossip is about someone else~

Theme: Live well.