A Heart-Stirring Marriage

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Genius physics professor × beautiful TV host. Pregnancy before love / three-year age gap / mature leads / sweet romance

Lu Manman, 29, is a leading host at Jingzhou TV Station, where she presents entertainment programs. With her captivating, foxlike eyes, radiant charm, and talents in singing and dancing, she is stunningly beautiful and a social butterfly. She has never once considered getting married.

She had even made up her mind long ago: once she turned 29 and her birthday was over, she would immediately undergo IVF. She loved children, after all.

But on her 29th birthday, after throwing a party and getting drunk, she was mistakenly delivered to the wrong room by her equally tipsy friends. They sent her to Wen Qi's room.

Wen Qi, 32, is 188 centimeters tall and holds a postdoctoral degree in physics from MIT. A genius physicist who started college at 16, he is a loner and a perfectionist, with a disciplined lifestyle and excellent physical condition. He has just returned from studying in the United States, and his only hobby is research.

In Lu Manman's eyes, Wen Qi is a man who follows the rules to the letter, supremely rational and boring. His life is like a black-and-white film, devoid of color and vitality: dull and tedious. He's exactly the kind of man she likes least.

Lu Manman is alluring and lively, carefree and full of seemingly endless energy. She's like a burning flame, and not the kind of woman Wen Qi likes, either.

Mistaking him for a little surprise her friends had arranged for her, Lu Manman takes him for all he's worth. She has to admit, though, that he does have a few qualities worth remembering.

She thinks she'll never see him again. But a month later, her mother forces her to attend a blind date with a supposedly highly qualified returnee. Lu Manman stares in disbelief at the handsome Wen Qi sitting across from her.

Her friend Jiang Ying, who came along, lights up at the sight of him. "Manman, isn't this exactly the top-quality genetic material you wanted? He's right here!"

Lu Manman waves her off. "Even if I want a child, I'm not that crazy!"

The next day, while filming a program, Lu Manman looks at the director's bald spot and suddenly throws up. She rushes to the bathroom, and her sense of foreboding grows stronger.

She takes a pregnancy test as quickly as she can, then cries out in shock. The two red lines are a glaring reminder: those good genes have now come knocking on their own. Whether she wants them or not, she's going to have them!

So Lu Manman adds Wen Qi on WeChat again. They had deleted each other's contact information after meeting just once. She informs him of the unexpected news in as rational a tone as she can manage.

He doesn't reply.

Half an hour later, someone knocks on Lu Manman's door. She opens it, and Wen Qi stands before her, tall and broad-shouldered, with fine beads of sweat still glistening on his forehead.

Before Lu Manman can ask what he's doing, he takes her by the wrist and leads her out.

"Where are we going?"

"To get our marriage license!"

Tips: After they marry, Lu Manman gazes at Professor Wen, wearing silver-rimmed glasses and looking coolly abstinent, and is on the verge of tears. She knew he was a fast learner when it came to research and studying, but how did he learn that other thing so quickly, too? (Professor by day, werewolf by night. Is this husband actually a fox spirit? ...)

Bonus scene 1

At a meeting of the International Organization of Physics (IOP), Wen Qi, impeccably dressed in a suit at his research institute, speaks eloquently to leading physicists from around the world.

Suddenly, a personal video call from a family member comes through. On the screen appears Lu Manman in a qipao, her eyes full of allure. "Honey, when are you coming home? I'll be waiting for you~"

Everyone stares in astonishment. Who could have guessed that the unruly, solitary genius, Professor Wen, got up to such things in private?

Bonus scene 2

After the meeting, Lu Manman slings her bag over her shoulder and hurries out of the office. Just as she leaves, the balding director calls after her.

"Manman, you know the station hasn't been doing too well lately. If you could reach out and invite some big names in the industry for interviews, like Jingzhou's leading academic minds, Professor Wen from aerospace physics, for instance, our channel might just be saved..."

"Professor Wen?" Lu Manman draws back the leg she'd already stepped forward with and thinks, This should be easy.

When Lu Manman gets home, she hasn't even hung up her bag yet.

A tall man in an apron emerges from the kitchen, carrying her favorite braised pork ribs. His long, narrow eyes glance at her calmly, and his voice is low and steady. "You're home. Wash your hands and get ready to eat."

An idea strikes Lu Manman. She drops her bag and clutches her stomach, crying out, "Oh! Little Wen kicked me again. He says he wants his dad to come to the TV station for an interview, so he can listen to it as prenatal education..."

Professor Wen sets down the steaming bowl and strides over. His strong hands, usually only used to calculate research data, scoop her up from the floor. "Set a time. Whatever you say..."

Tips: Professor by day, werewolf by night.

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After my ex-fiancé dumped me, I married the older brother of the family that controls his life!

Brilliant, beautiful chief engineer × ruthless head of a business empire

Marriage before love / three-year age gap / sweet romance

Lin Wanwan, 27, is a science whiz and chief engineer at a publicly traded drone technology company. She graduated from China's top university with a degree in aerodynamics. True to her name, she's gentle and kind, yet intensely rational, even a little conventional.

She wears the same dull office clothes every day and a pair of thick-framed glasses that hide most of her face. She's known as a pushover at work.

But only her best friend Jiang Li knows that Lin Wanwan, whose eyesight has worsened from her devotion to work and who has consequently become rather unkempt, has a bright, sweet face behind those heavy frames. Back in college, Beihang's male students voted her campus beauty by an overwhelming margin.

As chief engineer, Lin Wanwan has a solid grasp of her field, outstanding professional skills, and a conscientious, highly efficient work ethic. She has almost never made a mistake, to everyone's amazement.

After her family fell on hard times and her father died early, Lin Wanwan had few ambitions beyond her work. All she wanted was to build a happy family of her own.

So all she could see was the man she loved, Ji He.

They had been childhood friends since they were young, then reunited and grown close as adults. Lin Wanwan had given everything to their relationship. But on the night before the engagement they had planned together, all she got was a breakup call from Ji He, who told her she was unbearably boring and had no femininity at all. Then came the cold, simple words: "Let's break up."

Lin Wanwan couldn't accept it. Even though she knew her family had long since fallen on hard times and she was ordinary and insignificant, nowhere near good enough for Ji He, who came from a wealthy family and was exceptionally handsome.

She drank and cried all night, so drunk she was swimming in a haze, yet she couldn't swallow her anger. She didn't want to be weak or keep taking things lying down. She decided to go straight to Ji He and demand an explanation, and prove to him that she wasn't the unbearably boring woman he said she was!

But after knocking on the Ji family's front door, she made the biggest mistake of her life. Drunk and bleary-eyed, she mistook someone else for Ji He and ended up in bed with his paternal half-brother, the eldest young master of the Ji family, Ji Chen. His features bore some resemblance to Ji He, but his temperament was completely different.

Ji Chen, 30, is the true and sole authority over the Ji family's hundred-billion-yuan empire. His ability is worlds apart from that of the carefree Ji He. He is devastatingly handsome, with no flaws in his appearance, but his moods are unpredictable. Cold and abstinent, with a mind as deep as the sea and ruthless methods, he is known as the living King of Hell who commands the business world at will. People tremble at the mere mention of him.

What's more, a traffic accident when he was young left him paralyzed from the waist down, confining him to a wheelchair. It made his temperament even darker and more intimidating.

The next morning, Lin Wanwan wakes up and realizes she slept with the wrong person. Horrified, she flees the Ji household. But what shocks her even more is that her company's newly appointed president, the legendary business magnate, has finally appeared. And it's none other than Ji Chen, with his gloomy, haughty expression and flawless looks.

Terrified that Ji Chen will discover who she is, Lin Wanwan submits her resignation that very day, planning to join another company.

But her resignation isn't approved. Instead, her manager takes her upstairs and straight into the president's private office.

When the office door slams shut, the head of the conglomerate, President Ji, who is gloomy, aloof, sharp-tongued, and demanding in everyone's eyes, becomes a completely different person in front of her.

His eyes red, he blocks her in a corner. His long, elegant fingers lift her pale chin and snatch the heavy glasses from the bridge of her nose. He leans close to her ear and demands in a low, hoarse voice, "What? Chief Engineer Lin, you call yourself an honest person, but after sleeping with me, you want to shirk responsibility?"

"Then... what do you want to do?" Lin Wanwan lowers her head and retreats step by step, her face burning with embarrassment. She just wants to find a quick solution and put an end to this bewildering farce.

Ji Chen's blazing eyes fix on her. His thin lips part, and he gives the two-word answer that makes her eyes widen and almost drops the folder in her hand: "Get married."

Thinking of her scumbag ex-fiancé, Ji He, who had dumped her and was already flaunting his new girlfriend around the company the very next day, Lin Wanwan surprises herself by accepting Ji Chen's proposal. They get their marriage license and keep the marriage secret.

Bonus scene

The research team led by Lin Wanwan is making smooth progress and has secured a large number of overseas orders. President Ji, who always wears a cold expression, organizes a team-building event for the first time ever.

After everyone has eaten and drunk their fill in a private room at a luxury hotel, one of the troublemakers suggests playing a thrilling game of Truth or Dare. Everyone enthusiastically agrees.

But the unruly bottle spins to a stop in front of the unsmiling President Ji on its very first spin. Everyone lowers their heads, not daring to say a word.

Ji Chen runs his slender fingers over his chin and speaks in a cold voice. He gives only three words: "Truth, or dare."

The troublemaker has no choice but to follow the rules of the game. With an ingratiating smile, he screws up his courage and asks President Ji an extremely personal question:

"Who was the first person you ever liked, President Ji? Where is she now?"

Ji Chen turns to look at Lin Wanwan, sitting beside him with her head bowed, holding a glass of water and saying nothing. He replies in a deep voice, "It's my wife. She's right here beside me."

Clink. The glass in Lin Wanwan's hand falls to the floor.

Everyone stares in disbelief at the two people, so utterly different from each other.

No one knows that Ji Chen has waited twelve years to call her his wife so brazenly.

President Ji by day: abstinent, sinister, ruthless, a swaggering king of cool, head of the family, sickly and unable to care for himself.

President Ji by night: A werewolf in front of his wife, walking at full speed, sweet-talking and begging for hugs and kisses.

Flirty fox of a man vs. honest woman

Reading guide: 1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. 2. Cohabitation trope: The heroine stayed at the hero's house for a while during high school and met Ji Chen, the hero, but mistook him for Ji He. No intimate scenes before adulthood.

Tips: 1. After my ex-boyfriend dumped me, I accidentally slept with the older brother of the family that controls him, and then got a marriage license with him. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. 2. About the company's newly appointed president being my secret husband...

My next upcoming novel, "Clear Skies Today," a pregnancy-before-love story

Cocky, handsome captain × beautiful TV weather forecaster

Lu Qing, 28, is a beautiful weather forecaster at Jiangzhou TV Station. With her pure, lovely looks and big doe eyes, she has a natural, unaffected charm that has made her the irreplaceable goddess of countless homebound male TV viewers.

But beneath her harmless appearance, Lu Qing is a top student who studied meteorological dynamics at Capital University. She's positive, confident, and gentle, but also strong-minded and resilient. She hates change most of all and has never once considered getting married.

Having witnessed her parents' tragic marriage, she can't imagine herself becoming a wife, cooking and caring for a family while dealing with the horrors of domestic life. So she rejects countless suitors and remains single, even deciding that once she turns 30, she'll immediately get sterilized.

One day, Lu Qing and a few of her closest friends from the TV station finally go on a long-awaited trip abroad. But an unexpected typhoon delays their flight, forcing them to stay at an airport hotel.

Thinking that if they're already here, they might as well make the best of it, she and her friends buy several bottles of alcohol and drink their troubles away. But when she goes back to her room alone, she's so drunk that she mistakes the floor and wanders into Chen Fang's room.

Chen Fang, 29, is a first-class pilot and the dream man of every woman at Jianghang. He's 188 centimeters tall, earns a million yuan a year, and has a cocky, handsome face and an extraordinary, flawless aura. He's also the youngest captain in Jianghang's history.

He's always been admired by everyone, and graduated from flight school with ease. Uninhibited and carefree, he hates being tied down. He grew up as the campus heartthrob, like a confident wind beyond the rules, mastering every takeoff and landing.

In Lu Qing's eyes, Chen Fang is outgoing, arrogant, and conceited, with no humility at all. He looks like a male fox spirit and has countless girls swooning over him. His job as a captain also keeps him away from home most of the time and comes with a high level of danger. He's exactly the kind of man she likes least.

Lu Qing is conventional and dislikes change. Sometimes she rigidly sticks to the rules and leads a boring life. In Chen Fang's eyes, she's like a black-and-white sketch with no color, and not the kind of woman he'd like, either.

But Lu Qing isn't the only one who gets drunk that night. Chen Fang is dragged by his copilot to drink with their colleagues, too. It's impossible to say who made the first move. Somehow, the two of them end up in bed together.

They think it was just a one-night mistake and that they never need to see each other again. Lu Qing completely forgets the whole thing and pretends it never happened.

But a month later, during a routine weather forecast broadcast, Lu Qing looks at the greasy-haired director giving her orders and the huge sun icon on the screen, and suddenly throws up.

Her sense of foreboding grows stronger. At her friend's suggestion, Lu Qing takes a pregnancy test as quickly as she can. The moment she sees the two glaring red lines, she cries out in shock.

So Lu Qing has no choice but to find Chen Fang's phone number on the captain information page of Jianghang's official website, add him on WeChat, and tell him what happened in as rational a tone as possible.

He doesn't reply.

Lu Qing scoffs. Men really are all cut from the same cloth.

Half an hour later, someone knocks at Lu Qing's door. Chen Fang stands outside, tall and broad, his dark eyes fixed on her. Fine beads of sweat still glisten on his forehead.

Before Lu Qing can ask what he's doing, he grabs her by the wrist and leads her out.

"Where are we going?"

"To get our marriage license!"

Bonus scene 1

That night, the bar is packed. But the eyes of countless gorgeous women are all fixed on Chen Fang, tall and handsome, with an indifferent gaze and an air of nonchalant, cocky charm.

Trays of fruit and bottles of fine liquor keep arriving at their table as if they cost nothing. Beneath them are countless notes with contact information and requests to meet.

His friends are used to it and tease him. "Sure enough, only going out with a certified heartthrob like Young Master Chen gets us free food and drinks."

The next second, Chen Fang's phone rings. His long, elegant fingers quickly pick it up and answer. A woman says only two brief words: "Come home."

"Are you over being mad?" An expression his friends have never seen before appears on Chen Fang's usually indifferent face. His tone is fawning and obsequious.

The woman on the other end says nothing and hangs up.

Chen Fang isn't angry at all. Instead, he grins, grabs the coat from his seat, and strides out of the bar.

"Hey, Young Master Chen, where are you going?" His friends stare in confusion and call after him.

Chen Fang glances casually at the luxury watch on his wrist and smiles. "There's a curfew at home. My wife's strict. She's given me an order: I have to be home before midnight."

Wife? An order? Everyone in the bar gapes, their jaws nearly hitting the floor.

Bonus scene 2

As a weather forecaster, Lu Qing already knows the latest forecast for Jiangzhou tonight: a once-in-a-century typhoon, with level-13 winds and a red-alert thunderstorm lasting all night.

She knows she won't be able to call her friends over tonight, and her husband won't be home. No matter how afraid she is of thunder, she'll have to get through it on her own, with the baby in her belly.

So Lu Qing gets off work early and prepares everything she might need at home: she stores water and food, seals the doors and windows, and gets a first-aid kit ready...

As she rushes around trying to get everything done, lightning roars outside and the typhoon begins howling as if on cue. Just then, someone knocks urgently at the door.

It's so late. Who could be coming to see her? Lu Qing can't figure it out. She stands up and immediately opens the door.

The sight outside makes her eyes widen.

Chen Fang stands at the door, still in his captain's uniform. He hasn't had a chance to change, and rainwater drips from his completely soaked body. He hasn't even had time to set down his suitcase.

"Don't you have an international flight to fly?" Lu Qing looks up at him, utterly astonished. She can't imagine how Chen Fang managed to get all the way home.

The tall man doesn't answer. His broad hand takes her by the wrist, and he pulls her straight into his arms.

His thin lips brush her flushed earlobe. He says each word slowly and clearly: "Nothing is more important than you!"

Core theme: Marriage before love