Clear Skies All the Way

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Roguishly handsome captain × beautiful weather reporter

Marriage before love / pregnancy before love / mature leads / high school rivals / unrequited love from the male lead / sweet romance

Lu Qing, 28, is the beautiful weather reporter at Jiangzhou TV. With her pure, lovely looks, doe-like eyes, and natural, unpretentious charm, she is the irreplaceable goddess of countless male home viewers.

But beneath her harmless appearance, Lu Qing is a top student who studied atmospheric dynamics at Capital University. She is upbeat and confident, warmhearted, yet steadfast and strong-willed inside. She dislikes change most of all and has never once considered marriage.

After witnessing the tragedy of her parents' marriage, she simply cannot imagine becoming a wife, cooking and keeping house, and facing the terrifying tedium of domestic squabbles. So she turned down countless suitors and stayed single, even deciding that once she turned thirty, she would immediately get sterilized.

Then came a long-awaited overseas trip with a few close friends from the TV station. A sudden typhoon delayed their flight, forcing them to stay at a hotel arranged by the airport.

Figuring she might as well make the best of it, she and her friends bought several bottles of alcohol and drank their worries away at the hotel. But when she went back to her room alone, drunk and muddled, she got the floor wrong and walked straight into Chen Fang's room.

Chen Fang, 29, is a first-class pilot and the dream man of every woman at Jiang Airlines. He is 188 centimeters tall, earns millions a year, and is impossibly handsome, roguish, and refined. He is also the youngest captain in Jiang Airlines' history.

He grew up admired by everyone, first as the most handsome boy in Jiangzhou No. 7 Middle School, then as a graduate of flight school. Unfettered and carefree, he is like a confident breeze beyond the rules, guiding each plane through takeoff and landing.

In Lu Qing's eyes, Chen Fang is outgoing, arrogant, and utterly unhumble. He looks like a male fox spirit, making countless girls fall for him. His work as a captain keeps him away from home and carries a high degree of risk. He was also her high school nemesis, exactly the kind of man she dislikes most.

Lu Qing is a stickler for the rules who dislikes change. Sometimes she clings to rules too tightly, making her life dull. In Chen Fang's eyes, she is like a black-and-white sketch with no color, and not the kind of woman he would like either.

But Lu Qing wasn't the only one who got drunk that night. The first officer had taken Chen Fang out drinking with their colleagues too. No one could say who made the first move, but somehow, the two of them ended up in bed together.

They thought it was just a one-night mistake and that they would never have to see each other again. Lu Qing decided to erase the whole thing from her mind and act as if nothing had happened.

But a month later, during a routine weather broadcast, Lu Qing looked at the director across from her, who was barking orders, at his greasy hair, and at the huge sun icon on the screen, and suddenly threw up.

Her sense of foreboding grew stronger. At her best friend's suggestion, Lu Qing took a pregnancy test as quickly as she could. The moment she saw the two glaring red lines, she cried out in shock.

So Lu Qing had no choice but to find Chen Fang's phone number in the captain information section of Jiang Airlines' official website, add him on WeChat, and tell him what had happened in as rational a tone as she could manage.

He didn't reply at all.

Lu Qing scoffed. Typical man, she thought. And Chen Fang was exactly the sort of man she'd expect it from.

Half an hour later, someone knocked at Lu Qing's door. Chen Fang stood outside, tall and broad-shouldered, his dark eyes fixed on her. Fine beads of sweat still glistened on his forehead, not yet wiped away.

Before Lu Qing could ask anything, he grabbed her wrist and headed out.

"Where are we going?"

"To get our marriage license!"

Bonus Scene 1

The bar was packed that night. Yet the countless admiring gazes of the beautiful women there were all fixed on Chen Fang: tall, cool-eyed, and nonchalant, with an intensely roguish charm.

Fruit platters and fine liquor kept arriving at their table as if they were free, along with countless slips of paper bearing contact information and pleas to be approached.

His friends were used to it and teased him. "As expected, if you want to eat and drink for free, you have to go out with a legendary heartthrob like Young Master Chen."

Just then, Chen Fang's phone rang. His long, elegant fingers swiftly picked it up, and a woman's voice came from the other end. She said just two words: "Come home."

"Are you done being mad?" His usually aloof face took on an expression his friends had never seen before. His voice was obsequious, utterly ingratiating.

The woman on the other end didn't answer. She simply hung up.

Chen Fang wasn't the least bit angry. Instead, he smiled, grabbed his coat from the seat, and strode toward the bar's exit.

"Hey, Young Master Chen, where are you going?" His friends shouted after him, completely baffled.

Chen Fang glanced casually at the luxury watch on his wrist and curled his lips into a smile. "There's a curfew at home. My wife's strict. She gave the order: I have to be home before midnight."

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

Bonus Scene 2

As a weather reporter, Lu Qing had already gotten the latest forecast for Jiangzhou that night: a once-in-a-century typhoon, with level-thirteen winds and red-alert thunderstorms and torrential rain all night long.

She knew she couldn't call her friends over and her husband wasn't home. Even though she was terrified of thunder, she'd have to get through the night on her own, with the baby in her belly.

So Lu Qing got off work early and prepared for every emergency at home: storing water and food, sealing the doors and windows, and putting together a first-aid kit...

Just as she was frantically trying to get everything done, lightning roared outside and the typhoon began howling in full force. Then a hurried knock came at the door.

It was so late. Who could be coming to see her? Unable to figure it out, Lu Qing stood up and immediately opened the door.

The sight outside made her eyes widen.

Chen Fang stood at the door in his captain's uniform, not even having had time to change. He was soaked through and dripping wet, his tall frame beside a suitcase he hadn't even set down.

"Don't you have an international flight to pilot?" Lu Qing looked up at him, astonished. She couldn't imagine how he'd managed to get home all the way from wherever he'd been.

The tall man didn't answer. His large hand closed around her wrist, and he pulled her straight into his broad embrace.

His thin lips brushed her flushed earlobe as he said, word by word, "Nothing matters more than you!"

Synopsis screenshot taken on April 23, 2024.

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Roguishly handsome, hedonistic heir × purehearted, strong-willed top student

Faux siblings / female lead fostered by family / childhood sweethearts

The summer after Sang Yi graduated from middle school, her mother took her by the hand and dragged their battered suitcases behind her as they followed her stepfather to the Chen family's enormous, lavish villa.

She saw two people leaning over the railing, looking down at her from afar. When she looked up, she froze, almost unable to look away.

A tall, slender girl with a cool, striking gaze and delicate features looked down at her. Her small, pale face was as beautiful as a doll's.

Beside her stood a boy, tall and upright, with a striking presence and an unforgettable, flawless, roguishly handsome face. He looked haughty and languid.

Her mother told her that he was her stepfather's son, the young master of the Chen family. His name was Chen Zi, and he was her "older brother" in name only. From then on, she would live at the Chen home and eat, sleep, and go to school with him...

Chen Zi leaned lazily against the railing. Looking at the timid girl with nearly translucent skin, pale and frail, her bangs cut straight across her forehead but her back held straight, he lazily exhaled a cloud of smoke. His eyes tilted upward as he gave a roguish smile, completely unconcerned.

What a load of crap, this stepmother and stepsister business. Women who hovered around his dad were as numerous as flies. He'd bet the new stepmother wouldn't last three months in the house.

Standing beside Chen Zi was Sang Yu, who had come to visit the Chen family. Her mother told her that Sang Yu was a distant cousin, a true rich beauty, and supposedly a dazzling campus belle at No. 9 High School.

Sang Yi nodded. The two of them stood together, radiant and dazzling, like heaven's favored children. Compared with them, she felt she was looking into another world, one she could never touch.

Three months later, her mother secretly left, abandoning her, the stumbling block, alone at the Chen home to fend for herself and scrape together a living.

Sang Yi wasn't particularly surprised. Ever since her father, the only person who had truly loved and treasured her, died, her unreliable mother had often dragged her from place to place, living under other people's roofs.

Over the years, she had trained herself to be like a reed growing through a crack in the stone. Wherever she was, she could grit her teeth, swallow her pain with her blood, and keep living with unyielding strength.

Ever since he started school, Chen Zi had been an irredeemable troublemaker. He had nearly perfect looks, and the girls at school worshipped him as their heartthrob. He was a bona fide campus idol.

In private, he smoked, drank, and fought, and he was good at all of it. The only thing he had in abundance was the money his father threw at him.

If he said he wanted a villa worth hundreds of millions, his father bought it for him. If he wanted to ride in a luxury car worth tens of millions, his father bought one and assigned a driver just for him.

So from the day he was born, he learned to solve every problem with money and to treat life, including so-called love, as a game with utter disdain.

Everyone at school knew that Sang Yu, the campus belle who drew everyone's attention, had a crush on Chen Zi, the heartthrob. Her love was open, passionate, and intense. She was willing to do anything for him.

Everyone also knew that the campus belle and the heartthrob were the school's most perfectly matched golden couple.

Unlike her dazzling cousin Sang Yu, her cousin Sang Yi was worlds apart: a poor transfer student whose father had died, whose mother had disappeared, and who had been left to live under someone else's roof.

In class, she was quiet and unremarkable, devoted to studying. She seemed like a tireless machine, forever memorizing and poring over books, with a pair of thick black-framed glasses always perched on her nose.

Then one day after school, some curious classmates noticed that Chen Zi, the campus heartthrob, would sit in the luxurious car his driver brought to school and wait at the gate for a few extra minutes before leaving.

Then someone saw Sang Yi, her heavy backpack on her shoulders, hurry through the school gate and climb into that very car. Could it be that the two of them were going home together?

On the day they graduated from high school, Sang Yu had prepared a confession letter several pages long and a carefully chosen bouquet. She planned to finally reveal her feelings to Chen Zi, but after searching all over campus, she couldn't find him anywhere.

At that very moment, in a secluded corner of the rooftop where no one could see them, Chen Zi cornered his pale, frail "little sister," who had just turned eighteen that day, received financial support from his father, and decided to study abroad.

He braced one arm against the wall, trapping the girl with trembling lashes in the crook of his arm. His long, elegant fingers snatched the thick glasses from her nose.

Then he seized her wrist. His eyes reddened as he bent down and bit her pale pink lips, warning her fiercely in a hoarse voice:

"Sang Yi, do you know how long I've been waiting for this day? If you dare go abroad, I'll kill myself!"

Theme: With you, every day is sunny

2":"Actually, Ming Zhou's original arranged-marriage match was the second son of the Xu family.

The second young master was a notorious playboy with countless lovers. Even though the Xu family was powerful and influential, none of the daughters of the great families wanted to marry him.

With her adoptive mother's debt of gratitude hanging over her, Ming Zhou had already resigned herself to a living grave. Then, on the eve of the engagement banquet, she drunkenly pushed open the door to the private room of Xu Siyan, the Xu family's third young master.

The next day, the person she was to marry had changed. Ming Zhou went from being pitied by everyone to envied by everyone.

Xu Siyan was the third son, yet despite his youth, he had surpassed his two elder brothers to become the Xu family's heir. The depth of his methods spoke for itself.

So Ming Zhou was always careful and well-behaved around him. Now and then, she would even put on the helpless, delicate-wife act, tugging on his sleeve and saying, "I can't twist open this bottle~"

Xu Siyan would glance at her and smile faintly without saying a word.

He wondered who the woman was who had kicked a drunken thug to the ground in an alley outside a bar last night, high heels and all.

After they married, Xu Siyan was always considerate and attentive, a gentle gentleman who came to her rescue several times when she was in danger.

Even his friends couldn't help asking, "Could it be that your fake marriage has turned real, and sparks are flying between you two?~"

Ming Zhou was eaten up with guilt. At last, she couldn't hold back and came clean. "Actually, I wasn't drunk that night. I was pretending!"

The rebuke she expected never came. Xu Siyan's refined features didn't even crease.

"I know." He straightened her cardigan and brushed the snow from her shoulder, speaking unhurriedly. "I was pretending too."

Ming Zhou: "...???"

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[Arrogant young master × proud, pampered princess]

Possessive pursuit + a childhood sweetheart beats a sudden new love

The Wen family was framed, and their finances were in trouble.

A new investment suddenly fell from the sky.

The investor's sole condition was Wen Li.

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The Jin family is one of the most powerful and wealthy families in the capital. Jin Yannan is next in line to lead the family.

The eldest young master is aloof and proud, a formidable figure at the very top of the social pyramid.

Only when his childhood sweetheart Wen Li is around does Jin Yannan put on a kind mask and play the role of a good older brother.

Jin Yannan returned to the capital from a business trip only to learn that Wen Li and the man she'd been set up with were getting along wonderfully, and that their marriage would soon be arranged.

The possessiveness he'd buried deep inside was set ablaze.

He forcefully held the woman he'd never even been able to bring himself to speak harshly to. "Wen Li, instead of marrying a stranger, why not give me a try?"

Wen Li was stunned, and instinctively refused.

She couldn't accept marrying her childhood friend, the brother she'd grown up with.

Jin Yannan calmly brought out evidence that could clear the Wen family's name. "I want you. You don't get to choose."

He no longer looked at her gently.

His gaze was now tender and lingering, full of certainty that she would be his.

-

The Jin and Wen families held a lavish wedding, but the newlyweds onstage seemed together in name only.

The Jin family was at the height of its power, while the Wen family was in decline. It was obvious that the Wen family had married off their daughter to climb the social ladder.

People even secretly bet that the marriage wouldn't last six months.

After all, Jin Yannan was famous for refusing to be controlled.

Then one day, Wen Li represented the Jin family at a banquet.

Seeing her arrive alone, people couldn't help mocking her. As expected, she'd practically begged her way into marrying the Jin family, and Young Master Jin hadn't even bothered to accompany her.

At the end of the banquet, a sudden downpour began outside. Everyone watched for the show and said:

"Wen Li, isn't anyone coming to pick you up? I can give you a ride if you're headed my way."

"No need. My driver will come."

After saying that, Wen Li took out her phone and made a call.

"Jin Yannan, come pick me up."

Those six short words caused an uproar.

Just look around the entire capital: who would dare treat Jin Yannan like a driver?

"Didn't they say the two of them were about to get divorced? Where did that rumor come from?"

A lazy chuckle came from the other end of the phone. "So fierce, baby. Call me hubby and I'll come get you."

"I'm not calling you that. Are you coming or not?"

Wen Li looked mildly annoyed. Her soft, sweet tone sounded like she was scolding an unruly Tibetan mastiff.

"One minute. I'll be there after I turn the corner."

Little did they know that the supposedly wild and untamable mastiff had already become the princess's willing servant.

Theme: Treat love with sincerity

3":"Pure, jasmine-like beauty vs. powerful man of the capital / classical dance principal dancer vs. CEO

Marriage before love / seven-year age gap / the older man has been plotting for years

A bit of gossip has been circulating among the wealthy circles of Jinggang lately. The declining Xu family had brought back from a small Jiangnan town a graceful, lovely young woman named Xu Sheng, saying she was the daughter they'd sent away to be raised by others years ago.

But who didn't know that this so-called reunion was just a pretext for a business marriage? The Xu family truly wanted to curry favor with the Ji family, the most powerful in Jinggang. They were willing to marry off their daughter to the second son, Ji Bohao, despite his reputation as a playboy.

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Ji Yanli is the head of the Ji Group. Cultured and refined, yet ruthless in his dealings, he expanded the Ji Group's business empire to the top of Jinggang in just one year.

Lately, a classical beauty with willow-leaf brows and a slender waist had been appearing beside this so-called "living devil," the man all the society belles feared. She was the newly acknowledged daughter of the Xu family, who should have become his younger sister-in-law.

Everyone sighed. The wealthy sure know how to spice things up. His future sister-in-law turned into his wife?

Xu Sheng had studied dance since childhood and was exceptionally gifted. When she danced, her waist flowed like water. She had recently become a sensation with the dance drama "Jasmine in Bloom", earning the industry nickname "Oriental Jasmine." Everyone wondered which powerful man would be lucky enough to take this jasmine home.

Then one day, a paparazzo caught the rumored capitalist "living devil" holding the beauty on his lap and coaxing her softly. The tenderness in his eyes seemed ready to overflow.

Everyone sighed. Damn, who said the wealthy don't have real love? I'm shipping them first!

Bonus Scene:

After Xu Sheng became famous, she was promoted to principal dancer at the Jinggang Dance Theater. Her popularity rivaled that of a top-tier star, and she was constantly trending, while her devoted fans flooded social media with declarations of love.

"My wife is so beautiful! My wife is the most beautiful woman in the world!"

The CEO, whose jealousy knew no bounds, couldn't take it anymore and declared his claim in the comments.

"My wife is mine, not yours. @Xu Sheng V"

Everyone: Well, rich people sure know how to have fun...

Both leads have had no prior partners. Happy ending. Sweet from start to finish, no angst.

Please note: Since the heroine grew up in an ordinary family, the hero will do some down-to-earth things with her. He may not come across as a domineering CEO, so please skip this if that bothers you.

For specific content warnings, see the author's note in Chapter 2.

Theme: I remember your voice