Halfway to Married Life

🍒⭐: My new novel, "After I Accidentally Asked My Crush to Walk My Dog," is now live! A super-sweet identity-reveal romcom~

★Scheming tech tycoon x cool, elegant teacher

★Marriage first, love later | Long-planned romance | Secret identity | Sweet everyday moments

Shen Cen had always been the good girl in everyone else's eyes. Then, at twenty-seven, she did the first reckless thing of her life:

She proposed to a bar owner she'd only recently met.

The man had a face capable of captivating the world, spent money like water, and had a mysterious background.

Countless people were infatuated with him, but no one had ever succeeded in winning him over.

He and Shen Cen belonged to completely different worlds.

The night she proposed, the bar was dimly lit. The singer crooned a love song in a hoarse voice, and the atmosphere was intimate and hazy.

Jiang Shiyu was leisurely polishing the glass in his hand, looking impossibly handsome.

At her words, he merely lifted his eyes, his tone casual and unconcerned. "Miss Shen, have you really thought this through?"

Just as she expected, he turned her down, and Shen Cen fled in a panic.

But the next moment, the man caught her by the wrist, flecks of light gathering in his deep eyes.

"If you've thought it through, let's go register our marriage tomorrow."

-

Their impulsive marriage took everyone by surprise.

Almost no one had faith in it.

Not even Shen Cen herself.

She knew Jiang Shiyu had agreed to marry her only to put his gravely ill grandmother at ease.

But as they spent day after day together, she realized the man didn't seem quite like the person she'd imagined.

Jiang Shiyu was practically the perfect husband.

He made her breakfast when he got up early;

He stayed up all night taking care of her when she felt unwell;

And when he found out she was playing the hit dating simulation game "Summer Echoes," he got so jealous he went crazy, and the two of them spent a wild night together.

In this marriage that began as a contract, Shen Cen gradually lost herself.

Until she discovered that Jiang Shiyu had been lying to her all along.

-

Jiang Shiyu wasn't a bar owner at all.

He was a legendary figure who ruled the gaming industry, and the CEO of Guangyi Tech.

Rumor had it that this CEO was as cold as ice. Countless socialites and heiresses sought his attention, but not one had ever managed to meet him, all because he had an unrequited love from his youth, his one true love.

And Shen Cen, by some fluke, looked eight-tenths like that woman, making her a laughable substitute.

The night they parted, rain poured from the sky. Jiang Shiyu's eyes were bloodshot as he held Shen Cen tight, nearly losing control. His voice low and hoarse, he begged her again and again.

Shen Cen's nose stung, and tears slid uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.

"Mr. Jiang, go find the woman you love."

"But, Cen..."

The man's kisses fell over her in a storm, as if pouring out all the longing he'd carried for more than a decade.

"I found her a long time ago."

"It's you."

*One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. The heroine has an ex who is a throwaway character, but they never slept together. The hero has only ever loved the heroine, and has always known that she was his one true love.

*The main story is sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet with a touch of angst.

Coming next: "The Last Warmth of a Winter Night." See my author page

★Rekindled romance | An unconventional marriage-first romance | Angsty push and pull | Two wealthy families

★Cool, independent doctor x distinguished, devoted CEO

Four years after breaking up with Fu Ciyun, Shi Sui decided to follow her family's wishes and enter an arranged marriage.

At the banquet hosted by their families, she met her prospective husband. The man wore a black suit, his sharp features exuding distinction and indifference.

When he saw her, he only raised his eyelids slightly and greeted her in a distant, polite tone. "Hello, Miss Shi."

Shi Sui paused, then reached out and took his cold hand. "Mr. Fu."

But she remembered how, four years earlier, those hands had been so warm, gripping her waist without restraint, giving her everything she wanted.

-

After the wedding, they acted like a passionately devoted newlywed couple in front of their parents.

In private, they were partners who fulfilled their marital duties but hardly spoke otherwise.

Shi Sui knew Fu Ciyun hated her.

All she wanted was to work diligently and build up enough confidence to ask for a divorce.

But one night, after returning from a shift at the hospital, she saw that the man had left a dim floor lamp on and waited for her in the living room all night.

Burning with fever, he opened his dazed eyes and pulled her into his arms. His scorching breath brushed her ear.

She had never seen him so broken and obsessive.

"Sui Sui, can I hold you like this for a little while?"

-

Everyone knew that Fu Ciyun was a major player in the Jing City investment world, with an illustrious family and immense power. In business, he was decisive and ruthless.

For years, the city's socialites and heiresses had flocked to him, yet no one had ever seen a woman at his side.

There were vague rumors that he had dated a woman for three years while studying abroad.

So when news broke that the Fu and Shi families were arranging a marriage, nobody in Jing City thought it would work.

And when asked how he felt about his arranged-marriage wife, the man merely exhaled a puff of smoke and replied dismissively, "It's fine."

But no one could have imagined that this arrogant, haughty man would kneel in public at a banquet to help Shi Sui change her high heels.

Or that late at night after the banquet, he would lose control and kiss her fiercely.

"So why did you leave without saying goodbye back then?"

Theme: You are my favorite, my one and only.