Time Is Like Summer [Marriage Before Love]

One ordinary afternoon, Wen Ruxia walked into the doctor's office. The chief physician looked at her gravely. "Miss Wen, your test results are back."

As she left the hospital, Wen Ruxia looked up at the sky. The clouds drifted by, and the sun shone brightly.

As the illegitimate daughter of the Wen family, Wen Ruxia had always been cautious and reserved since they brought her back. The boldest thing she had ever done was choose the second young master of the Tang family, Tang Yibai, when Old Master Wen asked who she was willing to marry.

Tang Yibai was the famously unattainable heartthrob of Jingxi City. Countless girls liked him, yet he had never stopped for anyone.

So no one had any faith in this marriage alliance from the start.

Wen Ruxia knew it herself. In their two years of marriage, she and Tang Yibai had gotten along well and never had any disagreements, but she had never truly been in his heart.

The night she returned from the hospital, Wen Ruxia made Tang Yibai a bowl of zhajiangmian as usual. After he finished eating, she said, "Tang Yibai, let's get divorced."

Their marriage had only ever been one in name. It was time to set him free.

Tang Yibai looked surprised for a moment, but still nodded. "All right."

On the day Wen Ruxia left Jingxi, she called Tang Yibai.

Over the phone, she said, "Tang Yibai, I hope the rest of your life is safe and smooth, that you stay healthy, that your future is bright, and that you live to a hundred."

Tang Yibai: "You too."

On the first day after Wen Ruxia left, Tang Yibai felt a little out of sorts.

On the third day after Wen Ruxia left, Tang Yibai was even more reluctant to return to the cold, empty house.

On the fifth day after Wen Ruxia left, Tang Yibai began to miss her zhajiangmian.

On the eighth day after Wen Ruxia left, Tang Yibai found a cufflink in the drawer of her bedroom. It was the one he had lost years ago.

On the tenth day after Wen Ruxia left, Tang Yibai ran into Doctor Ming at a cafe. The doctor smiled and asked, "Did your wife's surgery go well?"

On the eleventh day after Wen Ruxia left, Tang Yibai frantically tried to find out where she was, but it was too late. She had vanished, and her number was unreachable...

Happy ending

----- New novel: Old Dreams Out of Reach, a second-chance romance -----

Five years after their breakup, Qiao Yinmeng ran into Jiang Chengzhou in a hotel elevator. He was now the head of the Jiang family, cold and noble, so far above her that he seemed untouchable. A rumored girlfriend stood beside him. His gaze passed over Qiao Yinmeng without a trace of recognition.

After hearing about it, Jiang Chengzhou's friend urged him to stay away from Qiao Yinmeng and remember how she had dumped him back then. Jiang Chengzhou said coldly, "I won't make the same mistake twice."

But when news broke that Qiao Yinmeng was about to marry into the Su family, Jiang Chengzhou, usually so steady and restrained, could no longer remain calm. He found Qiao Yinmeng and held her tightly in his arms. "Why did you agree?"

Qiao Yinmeng replied nonchalantly, "Because he can give me what I want."

Jiang Chengzhou was furious. "Call off the engagement. I can give you everything he can."

Qiao Yinmeng looked straight at him. "Anything?"

Jiang Chengzhou: "Anything you want."

Jiang Chengzhou was determined not to let Qiao Yinmeng leave him again. Love or hate, they were meant to be entangled for the rest of their lives. But a series of coincidences kept him from receiving Qiao Yinmeng's call. Later that night, as he held her, her blood soaked through the thin white fabric and stained his hands...

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"Qiao Yinmeng, the big star? You must know her, right? As it happens, I once gave her a ride," the taxi driver said as he drove.

The man in the back seat was cold and aloof. His voice was flat. "I don't know her."

The driver continued, "She wasn't famous back then. I don't know what happened, but she just started crying in the car."

The man paused. "When was this?"

"Two years ago. That day... I remember now. Yes, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon was just like tonight, bright and round. She was sitting where you are now, crying her heart out."

The man's throat tightened. "Why was she crying?"

"I asked her the same thing. At first, she just shook her head. Then she said it was her lover's birthday, but they'd been apart for a long time."

The man's hands trembled slightly at his sides. His thoughts drifted back to this day five years ago, before they broke up. She had sat on his lap with her arms around his neck, smiling like a flower. "Happy birthday, Jiang Chengzhou."

Cool, tender heroine x cold, devoted hero

Happy ending / Both are sexually inexperienced. The leads have only ever been with each other, with no exes.

Theme: Sunshine waits beyond the storm