Sweet Sunset Kiss [Marriage Before Love]

Coming soon: Moon’s Surrender [Marriage Before Love]. Blurb below.

After several failed matchmaking dates, Shi Qing decides to register her marriage with her good friend’s cousin.

She’s met him before: Liang Yuheng, heir to Jing City’s Keyu Group. He’s wealthy and handsome, reliable, and knows how to respect people.

A few months after they register their marriage, Shi Qing and Liang Yuheng don’t interact much.

But Shi Qing doesn’t mind. Her father never cared for her and neither did her mother, so she never expected much from marriage.

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After their wedding, as Shi Qing spends time with Liang Yuheng, she gradually realizes that their relationship is becoming more and more unusual.

One day, Liang Yuheng asks her, “Shi Qing, do you want us to build a life together from now on?”

Shi Qing had prepared herself to spend her whole life alone, but his words leave her unsettled for a long time.

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One of the biggest talking points in their circle this year is that Liang Yuheng registered his marriage to an ordinary woman just to spite his father.

Everyone assumes he can’t stand Shi Qing. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have lived apart ever since getting married.

At a gathering, Liang Yuheng plays a board game with his friends. Sitting beside him is Song Shu, the daughter of the Song family, who has admired him since childhood.

Song Shu loses the game and gently asks if she can kiss him.

Everyone joins in, waiting to see what happens.

Liang Yuheng raises his glass and downs his drink. Then his thin lips part. “Don’t joke like that again. My wife is hard to appease.”

Everyone: ?

Liang Yuheng actually knows how to appease his wife!

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One golden sunset evening, Shi Qing takes the initiative and kisses him. Liang Yuheng tightens the hand around her waist and deepens the kiss.

Reader’s guide:

Both leads are sexually inexperienced | Three-year age gap

The heroine is slow to warm up, but she’ll change

Moon’s Surrender [Marriage Before Love] blurb:

Yu Xingen never dreamed she’d register her marriage to the man she had secretly loved in high school.

Even though Qin Yue tells her he’ll never love her and that he only asked her because his family is pressuring him to get married.

The first time Yu Xingen rides to work in Qin Yue’s car, she has an erotic dream.

When she wakes and tries to get out, Qin Yue stops her. “Why were you cursing at me just now?”

Blushing, Yu Xingen lies. “I dreamed you turned into a dog and ate me.”

Qin Yue: ...

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At first, Yu Xingen thinks it’ll be fine even if she and Qin Yue never develop feelings for each other. She’s already happy just being able to stay close to him.

But eventually, Yu Xingen realizes that Qin Yue truly will never love her. Even in their most intimate moments, he refuses to look at her for long.

It turns out that briefly having something that was never yours can hurt so much.

Fortunately, this time she decides to stop loving him.

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After Yu Xingen asks for a divorce, she thinks Qin Yue will agree.

But instead, Qin Yue loosens his tie and advances on her step by step, roughly pinning her hands above her head. “Divorce? Not in this lifetime.”

When Yu Xingen is close to breaking, Qin Yue bites her viciously. “Didn’t you dream I ate you? Then let’s make your dream come true.”

Later, Yu Xingen sees with her own eyes how the proud, cold Qin Yue lowers his head to her again and again.

The moon that once seemed beyond her reach is one day willing to surrender at her feet.

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Reader’s guide:

Both leads are sexually inexperienced | Two-year age gap

Theme: Live well, love others, and love yourself even more