Scheming to Make Her Heart Flutter [Marriage Before Love]

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Lin Tian was born into one of the wealthiest families. Beneath his refined, noble exterior lived a wicked, arrogant soul.

A spoiled rich kid, always ready for a fight, and completely uninterested in women...

Known in their circle as the "Little Devil." His family was at their wits' end with their only heir...

Jian Yi was stunning and captivating, but cold by nature.

An orphan, she wanted nothing but success. She never expected that the opportunity she had fought so hard to seize would put her company in jeopardy. Crushed by pressure and defeat, she drank her troubles away.

When she woke up, she found herself holding a handsome young man in her arms. Jian Yi had no interest in men, so she got up and fled in a panic.

After years of longing, Lin Tian finally had a chance to get close to her. He wouldn't let her use him and then walk away, so he played the innocent victim and clung to her, demanding she take responsibility.

When Lin Tian's mother found out, she was overjoyed and immediately shoved a check toward Jian Yi. "If you're willing to marry my son, write in whatever amount you want."

Jian Yi's eyes turned to dollar signs. "Deal."

After their wedding, Lin Tian became a laughingstock for having a "wife he bought for ten million."

Everyone waited to see Jian Yi thrown out. Instead, Lin Tian left behind his mischievous Little Devil ways, worked hard to improve himself, and spoiled her rotten.

By the time Jian Yi's company went public, Lin Tian had grown into a true powerful family patriarch.

Countless beautiful women flirted with him at the celebration banquet.

Jian Yi raised her foxlike eyes and teased him as if it meant nothing. "With all these young, beautiful women trying to seduce you, aren't you tempted?"

"I am." Amid the glittering extravagance, the peerlessly handsome man took her hand and pressed it to his chest. Gazing at her tenderly, he bent close to whisper, "I'm very tempted by the way you get jealous."

*Happy ending, single-couple, cool and proud x scheming and clingy | older woman x puppy

*Female lead: Marriage Before Love / Male lead: Long-planned love / secret crush comes true

*Imperfect characters. Entirely fictional, with no real-life inspiration. Please don't overanalyze.

Blurb posted April 2, 2023, revised November 18, 2023.

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1.

"Shen Mengzheng, you're not my muse. Let's call off the engagement."

The darling of heaven? A campus legend?

That dazzling halo of "Mrs. Shen" only made her feel suffocated.

For the sake of freedom, Zhao Shuqing said every hurtful thing she could.

2.

Shen Mengzheng said, "We can't be friends if we're in love."

From then on, their names became forbidden to each other.

Later, they attended a classmate's wedding.

Everyone was dressed to the nines, but their table was so chilly it felt like the cold reached the earth's core.

A busybody egged them on: "The golden couple of the past, pretending not to know each other now?"

Zhao Shuqing tipped her head back.

The liquor burned her throat, like swallowing the poison she'd brewed herself back then.

It was pouring when she left.

Cold rain mingled with alcohol and the twisting pain of her period. She curled up by the roadside, as pitiful as an abandoned dog.

A black Maybach tore through the rain and screeched to a halt. The door flew open, and a man strode over, splashing through the puddles.

An expensive coat fell over her head, wrapping around her drenched, trembling body.

"Zhao Shuqing..."

His Adam's apple bobbed violently. At last, he bent down in resignation and lifted her into his arms.

In the car's warm, misty interior, he placed a cup of brown sugar ginger tea in her icy hands.

Zhao Shuqing stared at his tense, taut jawline. Her nose stung, but the words that came out were as cold as ice: "Mr. Shen, have you... lost your memory?"

3.

When Shen Mengzheng was stripped of his inheritance rights, he faced a barrage of cameras and simply laughed. "It's just taking off a suit that doesn't fit. Is that really worth making such a fuss over?"

Later, the toy empire he founded, Queen's, swept across the globe, building dreams for billions of children. Financial headlines hailed him as "the most romantic man with ambition."

Under the spotlight, a reporter asked him the secret to his success.

The man looked directly at the camera, but his gaze seemed to pierce through time and return to that stormy night. "She thought being Mrs. Shen was a golden cage, and pushed me away again and again..." A nearly crazed smile tugged at his lips. "So I tore down the golden cage and built her a free city instead. I wanted her to be the wind that roams wherever it pleases, and the fire that runs wild across the plains!"

"Luckily... this time, I bet right."

Love means being together, not being someone's appendage.

If I can't bear to keep you confined to a tiny space, then I'll build you an entire world.

Clear-eyed rebel director goddess X romantic-to-the-death madman tycoon

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