Newlywed Downfall

[Pirated copies are incomplete. Please support the official version. My next novel will be Childhood Sweethearts After Amnesia.]

#Second Male Lead Takes the Spotlight + Marriage First, Love Later + Long-Planned Scheme

#Stubborn heiress x scheming, seductive young master

Xu Yumo has recently felt like everything is going wrong.

First, the childhood friend she's secretly loved for eight years rejects her. Then her father forces her into a business marriage.

Desperate, she realizes that the eldest young master of the top-tier He family seems to need a marriage partner too.

The only problem is that this young master was the aloof, untouchable heartthrob of her high school days. Back then, the line of people who liked him could have stretched from the classroom building to the sports field.

With nothing left to lose, Xu Yumo takes a contract to exchange benefits and nervously asks him to marry her.

He Linxi casually flips through the documents, his expression distant and his interest lukewarm.

Xu Yumo sighs inwardly and prepares to admit defeat, only to watch him sign his name with an easy flourish. "Not bad terms. I'm in."

He closes his pen and looks up. "I look forward to working with you, Mrs. He."

-

She thinks their marriage is just a contract to meet their separate needs, with no marital obligations to fulfill. But then...

On the first day of their marriage, He Linxi takes her to live in his apartment.

On the second day, he says even a marriage of convenience needs a little romance.

On the sixtieth day of their marriage, he cups the back of her head and kisses her until she can barely breathe.

On the hundredth day of their marriage, she rubs her aching waist and finds it hard even to get out of bed.

Later, while organizing the computer at home, Xu Yumo accidentally opens a folder full of photos of herself from high school.

The folder's name is a string of code: 521D 604B.

Decoded, it contains just two words:

First Love.

Little scene:

One night after the wedding, her childhood friend, dead drunk, calls to beg her to take him back, his voice choked with tears. "Momo, I regret it. Will you come back and marry me?"

But He Linxi's lazy voice comes through the phone. "Calling my wife in the middle of the night to propose? She's not exactly free to answer."

Her childhood friend freezes. "What do you mean, not free?"

"What do you think she's busy with at this hour?" He Linxi lets out a mocking laugh,

then gently coaxes the person beside him. "Be good, don't make a sound. Let's keep going."

[Reader advisory]

1. Both leads have only ever been with each other, happy ending. The man who appears later wins her heart. The childhood friend pursues his ex, but never catches up.

2. Romance after marriage from the heroine's perspective; a longtime secret crush come true from the hero's perspective.

---Next novel, Childhood Sweethearts After Amnesia---

Li Leying's childhood friend, Fu Siyan, is the quintessential golden boy: top grades, steady personality, and handsome, adored by countless girls.

Sick of girls using her to get close to him, Li Leying starts pretending not to know him after they enter university.

After less than two months of peace, Fu Siyan suddenly gets into a car accident.

Li Leying rushes to the hospital and sees a crowd of friends gathered around his bed. He doesn't seem badly hurt, so she quietly lets out a sigh of relief.

She's about to slip out of the room unnoticed when Fu Siyan calls out to her from behind.

When everyone's eyes turn to her in unison,

Li Leying's heart skips a beat. She tries to play dumb. "Classmate, do you know me?"

Fu Siyan frowns. "Aren't you my girlfriend?"

Li Leying: ???

-

To avoid upsetting Fu Siyan, whose memory is in disarray, Li Leying is forced to become his girlfriend.

She thinks she just has to play along until he recovers.

But without realizing it, she lets him coax her into doing everything couples can do.

To make matters worse, not only is his memory scrambled, but his personality has changed too.

The man who used to be steady and abstinent is now so assertive that she can't handle him at all.

He simply... fucks her into submission.

When she sees their relationship has completely changed, Li Leying writes a disclaimer and asks Fu Siyan to sign it.

Fu Siyan raises an eyebrow. "Is that really necessary?"

Li Leying: "Of course! Before you lost your memory, you were so chaste and upright. I'm afraid that once your memory comes back, you'll say I corrupted you."

Fu Siyan lowers his eyes and laughs, tossing the disclaimer aside as he pins her against the desk with a wicked smile.

"Is it possible that the person I am now is the real me?"

Li Leying's legs go weak, and her voice trembles. "W-what do you mean?"

Fu Siyan bites her reddened earlobe, his low voice quiet and dark. "I mean..."

"I've wanted to do this to you since high school."

Li Leying: "?!"

#The Oscars owe my childhood friend a Best Actor award

#My childhood friend lied to me. Can I call the police? I want to report him! Call the police!

Theme: Learn to love