You're My Type [Marriage Before Love]

🍋 Next novel, Who's the Lemon Today?: a celebrity × rich daddy. They openly have an affair in front of the entire internet - ❤️ 300,000 characters, plus plenty of bonus chapters from before and after the wedding The complete novel costs just one cup of milk tea, and comes with delicious chapter comments written by the author. I wrote this over four months, ten hours a day, and won't be responsible for any pirated copies. - No unrequited love | Food story, with spice and sweetness in the chapter comments | Older man | Both leads are sexually inexperienced An administrative teacher who's a whiz in the kitchen × a sharp-tongued, fastidious, scheming entrepreneur A sweet story of a young couple who fall in love over time while eating, bickering, and dating. I've heard Professor Lin's son, Gu Yanchen, is one of the biggest taxpayers in town. But he's got an angel's face and a devil's heart. An older bachelor, sharp-tongued, possibly obsessive about cleanliness, and with a long line of former secretaries, he's on the matchmakers' blacklist and comes with nothing but warning labels. When Professor Lin introduced him to Lin Zhi, though, she happily thought: The professor is gentle, learned, and beautiful, the absolute pinnacle of mothers-in-law! Marriage is about sharing a life. Sometimes choosing the family matters more than choosing the person. Whoever you marry, you marry. If she married the professor's son, wouldn't that be just like becoming her daughter? The Gu family is a family of scholars, and Professors Lin and Gu are a loving couple. As for their son, Gu Yanchen? He runs a company, so marrying him is like getting a husband free with your mother-in-law. He was a little arrogant at their blind date, but he's handsome and has a lot going for him. Maybe she should marry him? Lin Zhi tried on her custom wedding dress from overseas. It was only her second time seeing Gu Yanchen before the wedding. Who knew he'd tease her with a single comment: “At last, you look like a woman.” And things got even worse. After they exchanged rings at the wedding, all because of a jade bangle, President Gu held her around the waist in front of all their friends and family and kissed her soundly for a full minute! Her legs were still weak when she came off the stage, and he had the nerve to tease her. The wedding fiasco made Lin Zhi the talk of the school, a “joke” known to both teachers and students. She thought it was an accident, and that at least she and Gu Yanchen would live together with mutual respect. But then she realized there was a reason a man Gu Yanchen's age still hadn't found a wife! He was seriously, unbelievably difficult to please! After they married, President Gu loved coming home, but to the housekeeper he was a fussy, exacting capitalist. Lin Zhi had to sit him down and lecture him. At night, though, he took his revenge, biting her lips and whispering shameless, dirty things, claiming he was just making up for losing face during the day. “Gu Yanchen, are you a dog or something?” she protested, wrapped in the blanket. He leaned against the headboard, twirling a strand of her hair around his finger, smiling like an elegant villain. “I'm vulgar. What can you do about it, Teacher Lin?” Her plan to spend the holiday sleeping with her mother-in-law to avoid her husband failed. Lin Zhi woke late, her waist sore enough that she could barely walk straight. In a panic, she rushed to the kitchen, only to find her parents-in-law already seated at the table. The traitor, Professor Lin, beckoned warmly. “Zhi Zhi, come here. Mom made fresh black soybean milk.” Her accomplice, Professor Gu, cleared his throat, put down the newspaper, and said gravely: “Yanchen, your mother and I have been thinking. You two should move out.” “You can do whatever you want at night.” After being forcibly hauled upstairs last night to fulfill her marital duties, Lin Zhi was so embarrassed and furious that she kicked Gu Yanchen under the table. The chief culprit, Gu Yanchen, calmly placed a peeled boiled egg in her bowl. “Sounds good,” he said evenly. “Then someone won't keep running to Mommy every other day.” On their first night after moving, he held her against the floor-to-ceiling window, looking out over the city's neon lights. He didn't care that Lin Zhi's palms left glandular fluids on the glass, nor that the spot beneath their feet had grown wet. “Now,” he breathed against the back of her ear, his breath scorching, “your support, breakfast, lunch, and dinner... are all me, Teacher Lin.” If she wasn't going to live with her in-laws, what was the point of getting married? [Reader advisory and content warnings] 1. The story is told in reverse chronological order, which may challenge your reading habits. If you prefer a chronological narrative, read by volume number, from the negatives to the positives. 2. If you want something a little different, check the chapter comments. That's where the revisions and fanfic are. 3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and the male lead is a virgin. The heroine had a worthless partner before. This is a very traditional romance, with marriage and children as the endgame. 4. The male lead's obsession with cleanliness isn't about liking things clean. It's a disorder, and he's already taking steps to treat it. 5. The leads' professions and anything related to the cleanliness disorder are for reference only. If you need accurate information, ask a professional. Don't take this novel as fact. 6. Don't comment on paid-chapter plot points in the free chapters. I'll delete all such comments. 7. Other possible triggers are listed in the author's note for Chapter One. Check them for yourself. [The author is seeking pre-collection bookmarks] My next novel will also feature sexually inexperienced leads. Please bookmark my next novel, Who's the Lemon Today?, through the link on Jinjiang. If I don't get enough pre-collection bookmarks, like with my previous novel, I won't make the rankings. Then I'll be stuck waiting to reach the required word count before I can start daily updates, get less exposure, and ultimately end the story in a rush because of poor numbers. The complete blurb for Who's the Lemon Today? is available. Click the [Author Announcement] below to go to it. If you've read it and are interested, could you bookmark it? I'd love to have enough bookmarks to make the first ranking when I start posting. Thank you! Mwah! And, as always, I recommend Halfway Up the Mountain, a pregnancy-before-love story. Modern romance coming soon: Who's the Lemon Today? Click the announcement below to go straight to it~ Secret relationship between sexually inexperienced leads | Older daddy | Celebrity × wealthy magnate A foolish beauty who's timid in secret but bold about cheating 🍋 × a powerful rich man who dates openly 🐟 Theme: A harmonious family is the true source of happiness