Half-Familiar Faces

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Mature adults / intense push and pull / lust first, love later / both leads are inexperienced / workplace development

Radiant, gentle executive secretary vs. sweet-on-the-outside, ruthless company president

1. When Xu Luochu learned that her blind date was Ji Nanjing, she thought her mom had completely lost her mind. They'd called each other brother and sister when they were kids, and now their parents were setting them up?

Would the president of a major corporation really be interested in a low-level employee like her?

When they finally met, the lofty President Ji was so arrogant he didn't even leave her a polite way to contact him.

Until they met again at the negotiating table.

He was the client's president, in control of the whole situation. She was the supplier's secretary, gentle and professional.

At that moment, a crazy thought crossed his mind: Hide her away and make her his.

2. Two people who barely knew each other spent their first night together.

The next day, Xu Luochu received a friend request. Calmly, she blocked him.

They met again at a blind date she was attending with someone else. He pinned her in a secluded corner and asked in a low, pleading voice:

"Can't it be me?"

If she wouldn't, then he'd break her and that other man up. If she wouldn't, then he'd force her to transfer to his side.

3. The jewelry store called. Her custom-made 10-carat Padparadscha ring had arrived. It was her favorite gemstone.

He said without thinking, "I'll pick it up myself."

That way, he could get the ring as soon as possible.

After hanging up, Ji Nanjing suddenly remembered that they'd been broken up for a long time.

People often saw President Ji traveling between Jiangcheng and Mingcheng. They assumed the company had major plans for Mingcheng, until someone pointed out that a small city like Mingcheng wasn't worth his attention. There was, however, a woman in Mingcheng who occupied a lot of his thoughts.

They began with an absurd encounter and ended in love.

Note: The workplace scenes are based on things found online. Please don't take them too seriously.

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Marriage first, love later from the heroine's perspective; a long-planned pursuit from the hero's perspective

Sweet-on-the-outside, ruthless CEO x clear-eyed jewelry designer | Wallpaper love | Long-planned pursuit | Marriage of convenience

The heroine is a junior designer, an ordinary jewelry-industry worker!

1. Gu Xiaoshu never imagined she'd get involved with Lu Jingming. In her eyes, he was both calculating and a scumbag, so she kept her distance.

But life always brings its share of trouble. For instance, she inexplicably won a house worth 15 million, but couldn't afford the down payment.

Gu Xiaoshu called in favors and asked friends for help. In the end, she went to Lu Jingming.

His eyes shifted as he said nonchalantly, "Marry me. I'll take care of your current predicament, and you can be my shield for a year."

A marriage of convenience. Each gets what they need.

Gu Xiaoshu weighed the deal. If she got the house and sold it, she could be financially free for the rest of her life. She had no reason to say no.

2. In a private room at a bar, Lu Jingming swirled his drink and said calmly to his friend, "I should get her first and worry about the rest later, before things get complicated. She's surrounded by too many admirers. One wrong move and some vixen will snatch her away."

His friend laughed. "So you're going to be that vixen?"

Lu Jingming set down his drink, stood up, and raised an eyebrow at him. "Why not?"

Later, everyone said Gu Xiaoshu was a schemer who'd slept her way to the top and latched onto Lu Jingming, a man far above her station. Little did they know that Lu Jingming was the one who'd gone to all that trouble, a shameless libertine.

3. There's a small room in Lu Jingming's house that's been locked for years. Gu Xiaoshu has never set foot inside.

She assumed it held things he didn't want anyone to see, perhaps mementos of his past with the woman he once loved.

Later, she decided to leave for Paris. The two of them had a huge fight.

She'd been drinking, and the little room's door was unlocked. She wandered in by mistake and found the entire room covered in photographs of a woman.

Huh? What was going on? Why did that woman look a little like her?

Theme: Believe in love