A Passionate Kiss Beneath the Begonias

[Refined, fatherly daddy x dazzling, dignified heiress]

[Sweetheart x expert at comforting her, five-year age gap / marriage before love]

The Shen family of Jingzhao and the Xu family of Nanlin are set to form an alliance through marriage. When Xu Ziyan hears the news, he flees overseas overnight to avoid the match.

Before his flight takes off, he calls the only elder in his family he trusts, asking him to speak with the Shen family's daughter and negotiate an end to the engagement. The man on the other end of the line speaks in a deep, clear voice and laughs. “Grandpa's going to make you kneel in the ancestral hall.”

He doesn't care, launching into an impassioned protest. “He can't force me to marry some ugly woman!”

Rumor has it that the Shen family's daughter, who has never appeared in the media, is an ugly woman with a disfigured face.

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The Xu family of Nanlin is an eminent clan of great wealth and prestige.

Xu Qiqing, the current head of the family, is refined and handsome, with impeccable manners. He's the “perfect son-in-law” in the eyes of countless wealthy families. The only time he has ever stepped out of line is when he goes to clean up his younger brother's mess and break off an engagement with a young woman.

The two meet for the first time at the farewell concert marking the retirement of Chen Shuqing, a master of chamber music.

The maestro's secret private pupil is making her first public appearance. The young woman is as radiant as a rosy sunset and as lovely as the moon. Wearing a black satin gown, she is breathtakingly beautiful as she flawlessly performs one of Old Chen's signature works, stunning the entire audience.

After the piece ends and she thanks the audience, thunderous applause fills the hall. A senior schoolmate quietly tells Shen Chutang that the man sitting beside their teacher is from the Xu family.

In the dim audience, the man is dressed in black, sitting with humble poise as he listens to Chen Shuqing. He nods along, applauding softly. Every gesture is elegant and composed, and his profile, appearing and vanishing in the light, is strikingly refined.

She assumes he's come to break off the engagement.

After the concert, backstage, someone hands her an unusual bouquet of begonias.

In a coffee shop that is about to close, she looks at the man across from her. “I know you're here to break off the engagement, Mr. Xu.”

She hasn't even had a chance to say that she doesn't want to get married so young.

The man slowly straightens and cuts her off. “Miss Shen, I have an unreasonable request.”

She looks puzzled. “What is it?”

He says frankly, “Marry me.”

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Below is the blurb for the second-generation story, Tidal Letter

After her third failed confession, Xu Wenyan decides to cut off the long hair she's been growing for years and start over, just like the heroine in a romance drama.

A young heiress whose life always goes her way has never stumbled over the same thing three times. She calls Liang Yinze to cry about it.

“Am I not pretty? I'm rich, too!”

Her phone connects two ends of the world ten thousand miles apart. After a few seconds of silence, a lazy, merciless voice comes through the receiver. “Do you know what time it is?”

His cold reply douses her spirits. Xu Wenyan chokes, snaps, “You men are all liars!” and promptly hangs up.

Heartbroken, Xu Wenyan invites her girlfriends out for a night of drinking, determined to forget about love for good.

At dawn, as she leaves the bar, she spots someone on the quiet, deserted street who should be on the other side of the ocean.

Tall and slender, hands in his pockets, he leans lazily against a car. While his friends tease him and ask why he flew home in the middle of the night, he glances over with sleepy, charming eyes and says casually, “I came back to see which idiot had upset our princess this time.”

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Because their mothers were close friends, Xu Wenyan and Liang Yinze grew up together. They are a year apart, and since childhood Xu Wenyan has loved making Liang Yinze call her big sister.

He was taught that boys should give way to girls, and Liang Yinze really did call her that for several years. But Xu Wenyan can't remember when he stopped.

That day, amid the haze of alcohol, she suddenly remembers the year she graduated from high school. After her application was rejected, she sat crying on the street in the middle of the night, and Liang Yinze was the first to find her.

The young man, dusty from the road, crouches in front of her and says with a sneer, “Xu Wenyan, is that all you've got?”

With tears on her face, she retorts, “Who said you could call me by my name? I'm your big sister!”

The young man's dark, bright eyes remain fixed on her, his expression solemn, as though he hasn't heard a word. After a brief silence, he looks at her intently and stubbornly says, “Xu Wenyan.”

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When he was sixteen, at the seaside after sunset, the glow of the sunset reddened the girl's cheeks. The sea breeze swept her fragrant long hair against Liang Yinze's chest.

At that moment, the heavenly bodies stirred the tides, and the surging waves sent a deafening echo through his heart.

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An unruly young heir with no patience, but who opens the passenger-side vanity mirror for his wife when she touches up her makeup.

A top-tier princess who's always been the one everyone indulges, even though she's the older sister.

Childhood friends / He falls for her in secret.

You are the letter I wrote to the moon, but never dared to send.

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A second-generation story following My Proud Darling and Hot Kisses Under the Begonias.

Theme: A relationship between equals