Flowers Bloom on a Summer Night [Marriage Before Love]

vb@Shi Haitang Nong Ya | Next book: When Those on Top Bow Their Heads, The Feeling of Losing Control. Please add it to your collection~

[Marriage First, Love Later / Brothers Fight Over the Same Woman]

[Gentle x Cold]

The night her fiancé cheated on her, Tang Xi got drunk and climbed into Lu Tingyu’s car.

He was her fiancé’s older brother, the real power behind the Lu Group, and a man at the very top of the capital’s social pyramid.

Stern and old-fashioned, a man of upright character, he had always kept his distance from women and knew nothing of romance.

Yet that very night, he slept with and kissed his younger brother’s fiancée.

After sobering up, Tang Xi clutched the hem of her clothes and looked at the bite mark on Lu Tingyu’s Adam’s apple. She spoke guiltily. “Big Brother, last night was just an accident. Don’t take it to heart.”

The man wore a perfectly tailored suit, his features cold and austere. Only the kiss mark on his pale neck stood out. “Do you think I would?”

Tang Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She knew her boyfriend’s older brother was a man of integrity. Last night had just been an accident, and the two of them would never cross paths again.

Unexpectedly, just as her attempt to break off the engagement failed, she stepped out of Old Master Lu’s study and ran straight into Lu Tingyu.

He was expressionless and said nothing.

In his impeccable suit, he stood tall, steady, and imposing.

Tang Xi lowered her eyes and carefully tried to walk around him, but he caught her by the wrist.

“Why not consider me?”

A month later, they got married and moved in together.

Tang Xi knew he was chaste and indifferent to desire, and that he’d married her only out of a sense of responsibility. He didn’t have much affection for her.

They could each get what they needed from the marriage. She didn’t dare entertain any other fantasies.

Until one day after the wedding, her resentful ex sent Lu Tingyu a photo of a love letter Tang Xi had written years ago.

The man deleted the photo and continued his meeting calmly, his expression indifferent and giving nothing away.

But that very night, he boarded a flight back to China and, like a man possessed, pinned Tang Xi against the cold floor-to-ceiling window.

Their shadows moved wildly against the glass. He clasped his fingers with hers from behind, nibbled at her earlobe, and ordered her in a commanding voice:

“The love letter.”

“The movie.”

“Holding hands.”

“Sex.”

“Not one of them is optional!”

Coming Soon No. 1: The Feeling of Losing Control

[When Those on Top Bow Their Heads]

[Bright and vivacious x Arrogant]

[Class difference + age gap]

1.

Jiang Wenxia attended her boyfriend’s family dinner and met someone in private.

He was her boyfriend’s older brother, Huo Jingshen, the Huo family’s heir apparent.

The sky was dim that day. He was smoking, thin wisps of smoke mingling in the air and half-veiling the chilly gaze he fixed on her. The oppressive feeling was intense.

Jiang Wenxia knew he was strongly opposed to her being with his younger brother. She didn’t want to provoke Huo Jingshen, so after nervously greeting him, she tried to walk around him.

But the man behind her called her back.

He stubbed out his cigarette and slowly walked up to her, his low voice carrying a hint of menace.

“Miss Jiang, I’ll give you five million to break up with Huo Yan within a month. Otherwise, you’ll face the consequences.”

2

Jiang Wenxia didn’t want to break up. Faced with a choice between five million and marrying into a wealthy family, she chose the latter.

Just as she and her boyfriend were preparing to discuss marriage, he suddenly cheated on her. She was dumped, and her dream of marrying into wealth was shattered.

When she looked up, she saw her boyfriend’s older brother standing on the second floor of the hall, gazing down at her with cold indifference.

Jiang Wenxia’s desire for revenge flared.

If Huo Jingshen looked down on her, then she would make him fall for her.

She began pursuing her ex-boyfriend’s older brother, using every scheme and trick she could think of.

A month later, she got what she wanted and slept with Huo Jingshen.

That day, she smiled with dazzling confidence and brazenly tossed off, “You’re nothing special,” before walking away.

3

She thought their relationship was over and that she and Huo Jingshen would have nothing more to do with each other.

Unexpectedly, a month later, in the middle of the night, Huo Jingshen came to her door drunk.

He pinned her against the door. His usually calm, indifferent face was a picture of disarray as he kissed her ear in a daze, murmuring, “Wenwen, don’t leave me.”

4

Cold-blooded and heartless: that was how outsiders described Huo Jingshen.

From the moment he was born, Huo Jingshen had been heir to a wealthy and powerful family beyond anyone’s reach.

He was domineering and arrogant, with an impossibly high opinion of himself, and looked down on scheming women like Jiang Wenxia.

So while he watched Jiang Wenxia go to great lengths to please him with cold indifference, behind her back he engineered the end of her engagement to his younger brother.

He never expected to fall straight into Jiang Wenxia’s trap himself.

He knew he shouldn’t fall under Jiang Wenxia’s spell, shouldn’t date her or sleep with her, and certainly shouldn’t nearly lose his life trying to find her...

But of all the things he shouldn’t have done, the worst was this:

He fell in love with Jiang Wenxia and never regretted it.

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Coming Soon No. 2: Marriage by Leverage

High-maintenance princess x stern old Daddy

1

Xu Youni used her family’s wealth to run wild, wielded her beauty like a weapon, and lived in extravagant luxury.

When the Xu family went bankrupt, the pampered Miss Xu fell from her pedestal overnight.

Before the rich young masters and heiresses she’d once looked down on could sneer at and trample her, she turned around and married Zhou Shenjin, the head of the Zhou family, one of the capital’s most powerful elite families.

2

Zhou Shenjin was stern and old-fashioned, with no hobbies and only work and profit in his eyes. He knew nothing of romance or passion, and even their married life was strictly traditional missionary position.

On their wedding night, he expressionlessly tossed Xu Youni a bank card. “My secretary will deposit your monthly allowance. If you need money, ask the secretary. Solve any problems with money. Don’t come to me.”

Everyone in their circle knew that less than a day after the wedding, Zhou Shenjin had left his new bride behind and flown to Australia to expand his overseas market. After that, he worked overtime, ate, and slept at the office, traveling for work all year and rarely coming home.

Almost everyone mocked Miss Xu, once the darling of the wealthy, for being trapped in a lonely, widow-like marriage.

Only Xu Youni knew how wonderful this life was.

Her husband was handsome and rich, and he didn’t like coming home. Ever since getting married, Xu Youni had enjoyed a perfect life, spending no less than five million a week.

Her favorite daily pastime was calculating exactly how much money she’d gotten out of her fake husband that day.

But as time went on, Xu Youni noticed that her fake husband was coming home to spend the night more and more often.

Xu Youni: ???

3

After Zhou Shenjin had come home to spend the night for three months straight without ever seeming satisfied, Xu Youni was exhausted in body and soul.

Late one night, after he tore her last nightgown, she finally snapped and demanded:

“Is the company about to go bankrupt?!”

The man lifted Xu Youni into his arms. “The company’s doing fine. It can afford to buy you a private yacht, a rare leather Birkin, a twenty-carat Padparadscha sapphire ring...”

“Wait, why haven’t I gotten any of those gifts?!”

“Just open your mouth when you kiss me, and be good.”

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