Tempting Me into Sleepless Nights

[One-on-one, equally matched leads] [Both are each other’s first and only] Until she was fifteen, Ning Lanqian was the cherished jewel of Hualan Construction Group. Then, that year, she lost her mother. Ning Yanhai used her mother’s ashes to threaten her, forcing her to develop products for Huashang. Then a lawyer told her that if she got married, she could reclaim the thirty percent stake her mother had left her. Lu Lingshen offered three billion to secure an arranged marriage with her, one built on genuine feelings. The day after their wedding, Ning Lanqian bribed a Lanhe Hotel employee to install a hidden camera in Lu Lingshen’s hotel room. But Lu Lingshen caught her red-handed. “We’ve known each other for five years, after all. You can really bear to hand me over to someone else?” Lu Lingshen lowered his head, his voice muffled like that of a little wolf pup abandoned by its owner. Seeing how hurt and aggrieved he looked, Ning Lanqian couldn’t help softening. She had barely opened her mouth when he kissed her. The taste of red wine mingled with Lu Lingshen’s distinctive woody incense as their lips and tongues entwined. Since her mother’s passing, it was the only scent that could calm her. Ning Lanqian had never thought she was marrying above her station. She was the jewel of Hualan Construction, a woman who could hold her own among businessmen, with the ability to stand as his equal. Lu Lingshen had never treated her as a mere accessory, either. Just as the visa officer had said: [May Viserance bless every married couple as they walk side by side]