The Love of My Life

Completed marriage-before-love novels, Babel and Tangled in the Mist, are super sweet and ready to read! Ongoing novel, When the Polar Night Comes, please add it to your collection.

Marriage before love | He falls first | Older man | He falls hard

Radiant, passionate auctioneer x traditional, devoted tycoon

Shen Yunwei, the third daughter of the Shen family, was strikingly beautiful, graceful and slender. Her parents treasured her from childhood, and her two older sisters spoiled her. As a result, she grew up willful and looked down on everyone.

Her whole family catered to her every whim, except for one matter that was nonnegotiable. To strengthen the ties between the Shen and Qin families, she would marry the new head of the Qin family after her twenty-fourth birthday.

Qin Yanxiu, eldest son of the Qin family, was renowned throughout Beicheng. He was proper and reserved, but also rigid, austere, and aloof. He was over thirty and still unmarried.

After returning from studying abroad, Shen Yunwei cried in protest, but in the end she still married Qin Yanxiu in a rush.

After their wedding, Qin Yanxiu remained focused on work, often working late and not coming home. Shen Yunwei didn't care in the least and never asked about it. As usual, she spent lavishly late into the night, treating her best friend to male escorts at a bar amid the dazzling neon and luxurious revelry.

To her surprise, Qin Yanxiu showed up and took her away without a word, coolly reminding her, "Shen Yunwei, you reek of alcohol."

Trapped in the small, enclosed luxury car, she put on an innocent face and snapped haughtily, "Why should you care? Who do you think you are?"

The man leaned toward her. When she shrank away, his eyes finally flashed with emotion. He gave a cold laugh. "Your husband."

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Everyone in their circle said Qin Yanxiu was the ideal marriage match.

He had assets worth hundreds of billions, handed over all his earnings, and was quiet and reserved. He looked like he had no interest in sex and wouldn't even need to fulfill his marital duties.

Only Shen Yunwei knew how wicked he was in private.

The night before, he would lose control, kiss her relentlessly, and keep going until deep into the night.

The next day, he would kneel beside her bed to help her dress, gather her hair, and rub her cheeks red with his fingertips, all while speaking in a restrained, proper tone: "Last night wasn't part of the plan. I'm truly sorry I hurt you again."

Falling in love with you wasn't part of my plan, but it was written in my fate. - Qin Yanxiu

In brief:

The Shen and Qin families arranged a marriage, and neither Miss Shen nor Mr. Qin was willing at first.

Six months later, Mr. Qin said that Miss Shen was the love of his life.

Notes:

1. Marriage before love. They don't know each other beforehand, and the male lead falls first after they marry.

2. First love for both. Seven-year age gap: she's 24, he's 31.

3. The female lead is an auctioneer, and her career will have its own storyline.

- When the Polar Night Comes: marriage before love -

Capable, cool-headed deep-sea sailor x steady, reserved polar research station director

After three years on the job, Bai Hemian had been pressured to marry 108 times.

By the fourth year, her mother had finally had enough and arranged several blind dates for her, even using the trendy phrase "marriage before love."

"You can grow to love each other. Your job is so unusual, you're hardly ever home. If you don't get married while you're still young, what will you do later?"

Bai Hemian married her third blind date, Song Zhenhong. His circumstances suited hers, he was handsome and easy on the eyes, and he was also a victim of matchmaking pressure.

When they met, they introduced their professions. Under her mother's instructions, Bai Hemian was forced to be a little vague:

"Vehicle mechanic." Like someone who repairs high-speed trains in the city.

He replied, "Space physics observer." Like someone at the Nanshan Observatory outside the city.

They hit it off, quickly married, and got their marriage certificates to appease their respective parents.

Half a month later.

Song Zhenhong received his assignment first and left town on a business trip for "a few days." Bai Hemian followed soon after.

Aboard the research vessel bound for the Arctic, Song Zhenhong was holding a photo and telling his crewmates about his wife at home when he saw Bai Hemian.

A moment later, Bai Hemian was introducing herself to someone else as an ocean-going sailor aboard the ship, newly married, with her husband back home.

Late that night.

Bai Hemian slipped into his room and confronted Song Zhenhong.

He calmly replied, "I really am a space physics observer, the winter-over station director. I observe the aurora during the polar night in the Arctic."

Bai Hemian answered without a trace of guilt, "And I'm a vehicle mechanic, too. I'm an engine officer. I repair ships."

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When polar night falls, death is forbidden in Svalbard, but love is not.

- Sweet romance, After I Accidentally Sent My Crush a Video of a Handsome Guy -

Xia Mian is painfully shy in real life but a champion at talking big online.

She has a no-holds-barred private Douyin account called Spring Sleepiness, which she uses to share handsome-guy videos with her best friend. But after their senior year of college began, her "best friend" suddenly became distant.

[Spring Sleepiness]: (2 videos of handsome influencers)

[Spring Sleepiness]: Wifey~ Today's handsome-guy picks. One for you, one for me.

[Valuri]: (Read)

[Valuri]: ...Don't call me that.

Xia Mian didn't think much of it and kept posting:

[Spring Sleepiness]: (10 videos of her crush, Pei Yan)

[Spring Sleepiness]: I want to bury my face in his chest so bad. His collarbones are so handsome and sexy too. I'm losing my mind!

[Valuri]: Ahem.

[Valuri]: Watch what you say.

Over the following days, Xia Mian noticed her "best friend" getting gentler and gentler, replying instantly and staying up late to help her with assignments, but always making snide remarks about handsome influencers.

Then one day, she blurted out something without thinking:

[Spring Sleepiness]: Ahhh, Pei Yan bought me bubble tea today! It was 30% sugar, no ice. Does he like me?!

Ten seconds later, a WeChat friend request popped up:

[Valuri]: "Yeah, I like you. I'm Pei Yan."

When she was too scared to accept the request, he sent the message again on Douyin.

[Valuri]: "Leaving me on read?"

[Valuri]: "Weren't you calling me your wife this morning?"

Xia Mian: ...Can I still delete my Douyin account in time?

#TheBestFriendWhoLeavesMeOnReadOnDouyinIsActuallyMySecretCrush#

★Shy girl who talks big online x aloof, jealous campus heartthrob | Secret love becomes reality

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