Tempting Lemon

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My next novels, Little Summer and Chasing Oranges, are coming soon. Please add them to your reading list.

Reunion after years apart / Marriage first, love later

1. Three years had passed, and Xia Ning never imagined she'd see Jin Huaichuan again at a police station.

He was then a rising tech tycoon, making waves in the industry.

She was still a university student who hadn't graduated.

No one would ever have connected the two of them.

Before long, someone took a photo of Xia Ning and Jin Huaichuan getting physical outside the police station that night.

Then a video of Xia Ning arguing drunkenly at a bar was filmed and posted online too.

In no time, Jin Huaichuan was caught in a storm of public opinion.

That night, Xia Ning was about to explain things to Jin Huaichuan.

But he dragged her into a room and pinned her against the wall. His eyes were dark and unreadable as he asked, "I heard I'm married?"

"And to you, no less?"

Before she could get a word out, he pressed his lips to hers. His mother was right outside the door.

2. Xia Ning couldn't accept Jin Huaichuan crossing the line, but he still forced her to marry him.

She had no choice but to tell him she was already engaged and would get married after graduation. He didn't care at all.

"Go ahead and get engaged. It won't stop us from getting married."

Xia Ning had planned to agree that they would divorce once the time was up.

But later, she realized there was no way to get out of this marriage. Even the engagement between the Xia and Song families simply disappeared.

Later, Xia Ning discovered the love letter Jin Huaichuan had written to confess his feelings on the day she graduated from high school.

She asked him why he had married her then.

Jin Huaichuan looked aggrieved. "Didn't you promise to marry your childhood fiance, that brother of yours, after graduation?"

If he didn't act, she would become someone else's wife.

Pampered little princess x tech tycoon (the princess's servant)

*Inspired by a screenshot dated August 25, 2022

--Blurb for Chasing Oranges--

Marriage first, love later with a nemesis / Second male lead wins

1. The first time Ruan Cheng saw Chen Beimuo after returning to China, it was at the hospital. He was her first patient.

Besides that, they were old classmates and rivals in high school.

Chen Beimuo's first words to her were, "Dr. Ruan, this wound is on my chest, not someone else's face."

The second time she saw him was at the bar where her boyfriend was celebrating his first love's birthday.

Chen Beimuo looked relaxed. "Dr. Ruan? If I remember correctly, you're about to register your marriage with that guy, aren't you?"

"It's just marriage. It doesn't matter who I marry." Ruan Cheng looked at him, half-drunk. "Interested?"

2. Chen Beimuo thought Ruan Cheng hated him, first because his grades had always been a little better than hers in high school, and second because he'd witnessed her failed confession.

Only later did he learn that she'd secretly loved the runner-up, the guy who lost to him in every exam.

He gave a derisive laugh. What terrible taste.

Her ex-boyfriend thought Ruan Cheng had only broken up with him in a fit of pique, so he brought flowers to her place to apologize.

He never expected Chen Beimuo to open the door, the very Chen Beimuo who had always kept him in the other man's shadow.

He was also the new head of the Chen family's business empire in the capital.

"Mr. Qin? What can I do for you?" Chen Beimuo wore a bathrobe, the marks on his neck hidden beneath it. He wasn't surprised by the man's arrival at all. If anything, there was a hint of provocation.

"Looking for my wife? She's still asleep."

Before shutting the door, he made sure to remind him, "Her place is small, and there's nowhere to put flowers. If you don't know what to do with them, take them to her husband's place."

Ruan Cheng thought he had agreed to marry her just to spite her ex-boyfriend.

She never knew that on the night she had started dating her first love, he had taken a flight lasting more than ten hours to find her.

That night, he drank alone at a bar until dawn.

Handsome, cocky bad boy x little fairy

*The idea came on May 4, 2023. The blurb was revised on August 16. Both versions have been saved.

--Blurb for Little Summer--

1. In high school, Chu Qing and Liang Xiashen were complete opposites.

Chu Qing was a well-behaved girl who kept her head down. She was strikingly pretty, but especially low-key.

Liang Xiashen was surrounded by admirers. Wherever he went, he had a crowd of friends, but he never associated with girls.

Then, not long after the start of their senior year, on a rainy night, Chu Qing saw him alone and approached with an umbrella. She asked nervously, "Don't you have an umbrella?"

Chu Qing had seen him reject girls without the slightest mercy, and thought he would reject her too.

Instead, he gave her a casual smile and replied, "I don't. Can I borrow half of yours?"

Their brief connection came to an end in early summer the following year.

2. Chu Qing never thought she would see Liang Xiashen again.

At a club in the university district, Chu Qing lost a game and had to ask the man at the next booth for his WeChat.

She never expected the man to be Liang Xiashen, still as carefree and unruly as ever.

Chu Qing left early, only to find it raining outside the club, just as it had when she'd first approached him.

But this time, he opened his umbrella first, and it was Chu Qing he turned away.

The proud, arrogant Liang Xiashen looked at her with pleading eyes. "Please, don't get soaked."

Chu Qing carefully avoided crossing paths with Liang Xiashen again, afraid that he would leave her behind once more and she'd be the one left hurting.

But he kept haunting her wherever she went.

Her friend gave her a suggestion. "The best way to get back at someone is to toy with them, then dump them."

Chu Qing had planned to wait until her exchange program ended, then they'd break up naturally.

Just as they'd agreed back then to be partners only until the day of the college entrance exams.

But in the end, Liang Xiashen had no intention of going abroad again. He pretended to be innocent and said, "Oh, I forgot to tell you. I've finished all my credits over there, so I can stay with you forever. :)"

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Liang Xiashen knew Chu Qing wasn't with him because she loved him.

But he still agreed without hesitation.

He had waited for this moment for so long, ever since that summer long, long ago.

*The hero has a secret crush / Reunion after years apart

*High school + university

Theme: The person who loves you will make you believe in love.