Lush, Lush Barley

Ambitious heroine x rising capitalist | Growth and redemption | Strong and unyielding heroine x gentle, obsessive hero

In the winter of 2023, Mai Sui’s family went bankrupt, and their debts came crashing down. When debt collectors came to cause trouble, she was at the lowest point of her life, with nowhere left to turn. The young heir of the Zhou family saved her life.

With him by her side, spring began in 2024.

That year was a new beginning.

During the years she struggled alone, Mai Sui endured every hardship life could throw at her.

On her path to becoming self-reliant, some taught her to become a saint, while others taught her to be cruel.

Only Zhou Zhixu wished for her to be safe and well, year after year.

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Zhou Zhixu is an obsessive man who decides everything at first sight.

He loves her with restraint, silently staying in her shadow.

He admires Mai Sui’s ambition, supports her aspirations, and when she asks him to wait, he waits ten years for this uncertain happiness.

Mai Sui says, “We have all the time in the world.”

So Zhou Zhixu prays that she will be safe and well, year after year, and that one day she will join him in celebrating a hundred years of happiness.

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* Nine-year age gap

* Female-centered story

Next book: Warm Wine Gone Murky, now ongoing

Divorce first, love later | Fake feelings x genuinely restrained, old-fashioned older man

Their parents arranged this engagement long ago. To inherit the estate her parents left her when she turns thirty, Jiang Ying marries Zhang Jingyun.

Zhang Jingyun is cold by nature, ruthless in business, and just as cold and ruthless in private.

Since they were engaged, he went along with it and married her. He looks down on Jiang Ying and hates her money-grubbing ways. Even so, he plays the part of a good husband in front of others, impeccable in every way, until the day Jiang Ying turns thirty, inherits the estate, leaves divorce papers behind, and runs off.

After being used and cast aside, Zhang Jingyun discovers yet another one of her flaws.

As for Zhang Jingyun, Jiang Ying thinks he is stubborn and old-fashioned, with outdated, unpleasant things to say. He is cold and unfeeling, always picking out other people's faults. When he spends time with people, he acts like an elder, endlessly lecturing them as if his age gives him the right. He is a relic of a bygone era, completely hopeless.

But he listens to his wife.

Hard to say.

Theme: It is enough that you are here