After Getting the Marriage License, He Drops the Act

My next novel is Temptation and Conquest.

I

Su Qinghe runs into her childhood friend Lu Jiming, who works in the same business district.

The skinny boy she once knew has grown into a tall, muscular man. He even has a scar below his ear. He's strikingly handsome and unruly, with a fierce air that makes him look dangerous.

To drum up business, Su Qinghe swallows her pride and tries to cozy up to the childhood friend she fell out with years ago, going to great lengths to invite him to dinner.

Thanks to him, her performance takes off.

She goes from an inconspicuous bank employee who gets pushed around to a well-connected star, envied by everyone. Even her bosses greet her with a smile.

Just as Su Qinghe is imagining her career taking off, she learns that people from the bank next door are fawning over her childhood friend.

He calmly explains, “They’ve introduced me to someone for a quick marriage. She’s gentle and beautiful, and she has a master’s in finance.”

Su Qinghe’s good days have only just begun, so the news hits her like a bolt from the blue.

“I need someone I can marry right away,” he says offhandedly.

Su Qinghe’s mind goes blank, and she blurts out, “So, a gentle, beautiful finance master? What about me?”

II

After getting married, Su Qinghe realizes she overestimated her determination to focus on her career.

Her childhood friend is powerfully built and has an insatiable appetite. Every day, she’s left weak in the knees and questioning her life choices.

A scene:

One day, Su Qinghe finds Lu Jiming holding the divorce agreement she drafted.

He looks at her with dark eyes, says nothing, then walks over to the shredder and calmly reduces the paper to dust.

That night, in the dim bedroom, he wears her down until her eyes burn and her mind goes hazy.

The man kisses away the tears at the corners of her eyes again and again, his voice hoarse and possessive:

“Wife, say you won’t divorce me.”

“Say that for the rest of your life, you’ll only be with me.”

Reunited after years apart / married first, fall in love later / the hero has been plotting for a long time / extremely sweet and doting

Sweet, easygoing career woman and childhood sweetheart X cold on the outside, unhinged on the inside, high-drive lover and childhood friend

My next novel is Temptation and Conquest

[Glamorous heiress X unhinged lovesick obsessive]

[Second chance at love / intense push and pull]

Ji Youran is unemployed at home when her father tells her to go work for his company’s competitor.

The company is frighteningly powerful. In just a few years, it has become an industry leader and nearly squeezed her family out of the market. Rumor has it that its founder has powerful connections and a ruthless approach, and is cold and heartless.

Ji Youran is fairly optimistic about it. She’s a small fry, so she can coast along until they fire her. There’s no way she’ll ever have to deal with someone that influential.

But things don’t go as planned. She applied to the PR department and got assigned to the CEO’s secretary’s office instead.

On her first day, she sees the legendary big shot: tall, long-legged, refined and aloof, and devastatingly handsome.

And he looks… a lot like one of her exes.

Once Ji Youran confirms that the big shot is her ex, Zhou Youli, she keeps a low profile and treads carefully.

After a while, his strictly professional attitude convinces her that he’s forgotten her.

Their relationship was so brief, and his life so full, that it would barely register as a footnote. Forgetting her is only natural.

Until one day, Ji Youran gets caught searching for something in the big shot’s room.

In a panic, she blurts out, “I like you! I know we can’t be together. I just wanted to keep one of your personal belongings…”

Zhou Youli stares at her, his long fingers undoing his shirt collar. He lets out a low laugh.

After that, the two of them begin a strange relationship.

They’re passionate in bed, but remain boss and employee outside it.

At last, Ji Youran’s father tells her she can leave. The two companies have reached a partnership, so she can quit and go home to get married.

On the day her intended match arrives with his family, bearing lavish gifts, Zhou Youli is there too.

In Ji Youran’s room, he pins her against the door and undoes the buttons of her silk blouse one by one.

The man leans down and trembles against her ear. “Baby, this time you’re not getting away.”

Coming soon: Secret Addiction

1

When the hospital tells Ye Ning she’s critically ill, she chooses to refuse treatment.

There are still 200,000 yuan in her account, saved through years of hard work as an office drone.

She’s going to fulfill her two greatest wishes.

First: clean up the workplace and tear into every client who exploits her.

Second: sleep with the godlike man she’s kept hidden in her heart.

When she runs into him at a bar, she approaches with a drink, pretends not to know him, and makes her move.

After one night together…

Ye Ning has no regrets.

When he asks to see her again, she gladly agrees.

Their meetings grow more frequent, from nighttime to daytime, from hotels to cars…

He messages her at all hours, wanting to see her.

Ye Ning suddenly realizes her crush isn’t as radiant and pure as he appears. It’s as if something is seriously wrong with him.

2

The hospital informs her that they made a mistake. Reborn after escaping death, Ye Ning decides to get her life back on track.

She moves to a new city, finds a new job, and deletes all her old contact information.

Her new company offers good benefits and a pleasant working environment, and things go smoothly for Ye Ning.

Until a month later, when the company is acquired and new leadership takes over.

The big boss who appears onstage to give a speech is devastatingly handsome. The whole room erupts.

After getting home, Ye Ning agonizes over whether to quit or keep her head down.

Then she hears that the big boss is engaged to a wealthy heiress, and the two are about to join forces in a wedding of the century.

For the sake of her high salary, Ye Ning decides to keep her head down.

On the night Ye Ning goes to meet a blind date arranged by a coworker, a torrential rain is falling.

The big boss appears outside the restaurant with an umbrella. He gently wraps an arm around her waist and kisses her in front of her date.

Then he brushes his lips and drawls, “Baby, whose kissing is better, his or mine?”

[Sweet on the outside, darkly obsessive godlike man X genius designer who seems dark but is sweet]

[The hero seems pure but is actually unhinged; the heroine thinks she’s unhinged but is actually pure]

Theme: Love and growth