Latest Marriage of Convenience Novel

Original title: "Abstract Couple"

[Non-traditional marriage first, love later / Cliched tropes for days / Master of verbal sparring / Otaku couple / Comedic duo with mismatched logic / "If you're hungry, I'll tell you to eat sh*t" type of people...]

Tang Ke: Buddies, I caught a禁欲眼镜系omega (ascetic, glasses-wearing omega) on a blind date!

Fu Yu: Her voice is so pleasant.

Tang Ke: Teasing a virgin is everyone's responsibility! But, sorry, I'm not human anymore.

Fu Yu: So it was just talk... well, I was certainly hyped up.

After hooking him without taking responsibility, Tang Ke belike: I don't want to think too much. Can't I just be a mindless zombie? Play is play, jokes are jokes, but don't joke about feelings. I still have to go to work, comrade, I'll always serve the people.

No chance to confess, Fu Yu belike: Thanks for asking, got sand in my eyes.

Realizing she might have feelings for him but too embarrassed to say it directly, Tang Ke belike: Look how white this wall is.

Having completely adapted to her verbal antics and grown accustomed to them, Fu Yu belike: Alright, I'll kiss you later.

[Tsundere, poker-faced programmer x Flamboyant, erratic civil servant]

[Game fanatic who clears levels unconventionally x Heavily infected by vulgar emojis, evil bang-wielder]

[Too many titles to list x We're two of a kind, neither better than the other]

[Pure love man x Stubborn donkey woman]

Reading tips:

1. A short, sweet romance novel without much substance, full of diverse tropes and complex elements; you won't regret buying it.

2. More focused on daily life, a romantic sketch. All in all, it's a happy and congratulatory story of mutual affection.

3. No angst throughout, but there are unfunny dad jokes; keep warm.

4. A childish marriage with some logic, but not much.

5. Featuring working-class life, with elements of struggling laborers.

6. Will add more if I think of anything...

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Content tags: Urban, Happy Enemies, Fated Match, Relaxed, Daily Life, Secret Love.

Tang Ke, Fu Yu.

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Brief summary: The abstract couple mixes first, loves later.

Theme: Encounter implies compatibility.

Artist & Lawyer.

Crazy rich young lady vs tender poor student / Marriage of convenience / Two stubborn souls / She wants it, she gets it.

Pei Lanqing was an orphan, raised on the money his foster father earned from selling vegetables. In his first year of university, he found a tutoring job through a professor in his department.

The employer was a rich young lady named Lin Qianyuan. He thought their first meeting would be at the Lin family's villa, but it wasn't. Their first encounter was at Imperial Capital University.

He was feeding a cat, and she stood under a plane tree not far away, staring at him intently. Most stray cats on campus were gentle and avoided people, but that particular one was very ill-tempered.

The young man squatting beside the cat had his hand scratched, but he didn't mind at all. He reached out again, gently soothing it. It was unclear what he said, but his expression seemed to be coaxing the cat.

That evening, Lin Qianyuan asked her father to find her a tutor. At that time, she was deaf in both ears due to a car accident, had dropped out of school, and her personality had become reclusive and capricious. Her biological mother had also died in the accident, and her father, fearing she might harm herself, agreed to her request.

Pei Lanqing.

Lin Qianyuan thought, "This name suits him well." As they spent more time together, she felt it would be even better if his name could be tied to hers.

So, a few years later, when his foster father was gravely ill and urgently needed a large sum for treatment, she quietly appeared outside the hospital room and casually asked him, "Pei Lanqing, will you marry me?"

"It just so happens I need someone to marry."

Pei Lanqing was a graduate student that year and couldn't come up with that much money all at once. Even though it was for mutual benefit, he was still very grateful for her help.

Evidently, his agreement to marry was out of gratitude, not love. Lin Qianyuan didn't care. After getting their marriage certificate, she told him, "Don't ever fall in love with me."

Pei Lanqing said okay. He knew there was no love between them. Nor had he ever dared to imagine it.

Just like after paying off the medical expenses, Pei Lanqing waited, anxiously wondering if she would propose divorce one day. He wouldn't disagree.

Until one day, Lin Qianyuan got drunk, and he went to pick her up. The alcohol made her more boisterous than usual, and Pei Lanqing good-temperedly took it all in.

After routinely coaxing her to sleep, he turned off the bedside lamp, intending to sleep. But at that moment, the person beside him suddenly moved closer. "Are you going to divorce me?" Lin Qianyuan asked.

She had seen it that morning. There was a divorce agreement in his study.

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1. The divorce agreement belongs to the client of a case the male lead is handling.

2. The female lead's hearing will recover. She is an illegitimate daughter, has low moral standards but is kind-hearted (do you believe it?).

3. The male lead becomes quite wealthy later, but not as wealthy as the female lead.

From being mutually disgusted after a marriage of convenience to becoming a doting husband.

Song Siyun had always disliked Gu Yanzhou, a fact known throughout the capital. She openly declared: "He's a jinx; whoever gets involved with him will have bad luck." Unexpectedly, an imperial edict bound the two most incompatible people together.

At the palace gate, Song Siyun stopped Gu Yanzhou, who wore a white robe, had stern eyebrows, and a faint smile playing on his lips. Gritting her teeth, she said, "I won't marry you, go and annul the engagement!"

The bright yellow imperial decree slipped from her hand, only to be picked up by the man who chuckled with narrowed eyes: "An imperial marriage cannot be defied." It was the expected answer.

Song Siyun curled her lips, her eyes filled with undisguised mockery: "Since you're such a coward, keep your tail tucked in after marriage. That way, we might at least save face."

"Couldn't wish for anything more," Gu Yanzhou replied, those four words all he left as he departed.

But later, within their bed curtains, the young woman's slender fingers poked his nose, and she teasingly whispered, "Is this what Deputy Minister Gu meant by 'couldn't wish for anything more'?"

The man raised a hand, gathering her fingertips to his lips, and vaguely denied, "My wife also once said we wouldn't bother each other.".

Due to a substitute marriage, she became the Commander's wife. Su Wanqing never imagined that her life would be turned upside down by her sister's elopement. A marriage contract, a grand wedding, yet the groom was far away at the frontier, never even having met her. She became the Commander's wife, admired by all, but also a "joke" who guarded an empty room and endured constant scrutiny.

From their first encounter after marriage, he was an iceberg. Huo Tingxiao, the youngest iron-blooded commander in history, renowned for his military exploits and immense power, was nevertheless cold, indifferent, and kept women at a distance. When he first returned home, his gaze held no warmth: "Mrs. Huo? Do your duty." For him, marriage was merely a matter of responsibility and strategy.

Marriage first, then love—how could she melt the ice? Faced with his coldness, family difficulties, the provocations of his "white moonlight," and everyone's disdain, Su Wanqing shed her fragility and revealed her sharpness. She used her intelligence to resolve crises and her talent to earn respect.

She not only managed the household meticulously but also gradually built her own career. Her radiance quietly illuminated the corner of his heart that he never allowed anyone to touch.

The tough guy transformed into a doting husband. He eventually realized that this "iceberg" had long since melted for her, without him even knowing. Harass her? That was touching his forbidden scale; he would pursue justice, no matter how far. He protected her, trusted her, and doted on her, giving all his iron-blooded tenderness to her alone. "Huo Tingxiao's life, she is his only weakness, and also his armor."

Low ratings are due to a low number of reviewers. This novel features: marriage before love, slight yandere tendencies, mutual purity, a 3-year age gap, a渣男(scumbag ex) truly gets his comeuppance, both male and female leads are straightforward and communicative, no misunderstandings, no secondary couples, no forced pairings, and the male lead has a voice fetish, so he enjoys being "stepped on" (verbally).

It's a story of a foxy, straightforward rich daughter who is an ASMR streamer, and a manipulative, slightly yandere, tea-green (scheming) tycoon.

On the eve of her engagement, Ni Yang accidentally overhears her fiancé's true thoughts about her. "Ni Yang is a rich young lady, yet she insists on being an ASMR streamer. Isn't that just being provocative? If it weren't for her prominent family background, this profession would be completely unbringable, a disgrace." A man who doesn't defend her in public—why keep him around for the New Year? The next day, she found a new fiancé.

He Su Yu, the youngest head of the He family, is self-disciplined and proper, yet possesses a face that looks like a peerless scumbag. His agreement to marry Ni Yang was, of course, long premeditated. No one knows that He Su Yu is secretly a perverted yandere; he has an extreme voice fetish, and in bed, he tempts Ni Yang with alluring and obscure words.

Excerpt from the main text: On the first night after returning from a business trip, his wife requested separate beds, saying she wasn't ready yet. Banished to the guest room, he added a sleeping pill to Ni Yang's bedtime milk. After confirming she was asleep, he secretly snuck into the master bedroom and lay beside Ni Yang.

Greedily, his fingertips traced her serene sleeping face, his voice low and sexy: "Baby's nightgown tonight is so beautiful. I want to tear it to shreds, I want to possess you. I want to hear baby's voice, I want baby to call my name, I want to hear baby pant."

"Baby, don't make me wait too long, I won't be able to control myself." Note: This is not a strong female lead story, and there is no female competition.

In the high-tech star empire civilization, Corsis, a college student who accidentally transmigrates into a noble family, finds herself about to be married to the empire's General Nukhla.

Unexpectedly, Nukhla is her strict military professor back at school. Too defenseless in this alien world, she reluctantly marries him and desperately prays for an early divorce.

Generally, General Nukhla is quite amiable with students except for one thing — he is exceptionally harsh towards his assistant Corsis. Any slight imperfection from her would be immediately pointed out without mercy.

At night, Nukhla, wearing only a loosely draped bathrobe on a soft bed, speaks gently: “Corsis, I was wrong… Sleep here tonight, okay?” Seeing his exposed broad chest and the submissive posture, Corsis is speechless — her anger vanish, coming to lie down beside him.

Besides the Corsis-Nukhla story line, there is another subplot about a substitute lover in the entertainment industry: a gentle substitute lover facing a depressed, money-flush patron.

Liyang, a temporary substitute for a celebrity actor, meets his patron Xu Qingze who keeps him as his secret lover. After three years of satisfy each other's needs, when the substitute is no longer needed, he decides to quit as the real object returns, leaving the patron devastated.

In the end, Xu Qingze chases after Liyang who returns to his hometown, confessing his wrongdoings and declaring his true feelings.

Note: The story involves a 13-year age gap (22 vs 35). Both characters live long lives so the age difference is not significant. The work is non-gore in nature.

(Main story concluded, ongoing side stories) Shen Qianyue, daughter of the Prime Minister, excels in military strategy and schemes, despising frivolous nobles. Xie Shangjia from the Department of State Affairs now masquerades as refined, though infamous as the capital's top playboy in younger days. Married for five years, their unexpectedly harmonious union surprises all.

When Xie Shangjia falls into an icy lake during winter and regresses to his 18-year-old memories, chaos erupts. The immature version demands divorce: "Take all I own—even half my father's treasury! Being with you sickens me!" The mature 26-year-old's profound love clashes with his younger self's rebellion.

Shen sets a three-month trial, coldly observing his return to debauchery. As Xie enjoys freedom, he grows uneasy about her sudden absence. When their child misses him, he visits—only to find his brother coveting Shen. Consumed by jealousy, he confesses overnight.

Medical treatment reveals her past with his royal uncle. Tears flowing, Xie vows to isolate Shen from the prince post-recovery. Returning to the capital, they face an imperial divorce decree she accepts. Provoked beyond limits, Xie collapses.

Awakening with restored memories, he discovers her political machinations and rushes to support her schemes. Together with Prince Dingwu, Shen overthrows the old regime, establishing new governance as the Ministry of War's first female official. Character Guide: 1. Ruthless but gentle heroine X reckless amnesiac-turned-loyal husband 2. Comedic sweetness with plot-driven tension 3. Mutual chastity

【Main text completed at 400,000 words～Enjoy!】

【Female-disguised-as-male Noble Heir × Male-disguised-as-female Princess, 1v1, HE】

An imperial decree binds Yu Qing and Princess Qingjia in marriage. Yu Qing, with her complicated identity, initially intends to maintain a respectful distance. However, the princess pleads tearfully: "Husband, I've spent my life secluded in the palace without favor or affection. If even you won't cherish me, who can I entrust my life to?"

The princess is a great beauty—fragrant and skilled in coquetry. Yu Qing agonizes: "I want to cherish her too, but what if I'm also a woman?" Unable to bear hurting her tender-hearted wife, Yu Qing treats the princess like a true husband, showering her with meticulous care.

On the day Yu Qing departs for battle, the princess weeps bitterly. After their heartfelt farewell, Yu Qing plans to confess everything upon return—but before triumph, the princess dies in the capital. Years later, when Yu Qing returns, a dazzling new prince dominates the court... who looks eerily like her deceased wife.

Investigations reveal two terrifying truths: First, the deceased wife wasn't female. Second, the deceased wife isn't dead. Yu Qing never imagined her seemingly innocent wife could deceive her so deeply. Determined to sever ties, she wavers when the tearful prince stirs her heart anew. She realizes: A wife can't become an enemy—a wife remains a wife.

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Forced to marry into the Marquis' household as a wife, Xie Jing resents his role initially. Early in the marriage, he refuses to share a bed with a man. Half a month later, witnessing the gentle, elegant young general, Xie Jing compromises. A month in, he questions his sexuality amidst existential crisis—until discovering his husband's colossal secret. From then on, he eagerly awaits his lord's return daily.

As the noble heir and princess enjoy harmonious days, Xie Jing executes his escape. Reuniting, he assumes his face alone can reclaim Yu Qing's favor and his position as the manor's mistress. When Yu Qing's fierce sword intent strikes, reality dawns: Matters aren't so simple. To remarry into the noble household, Xie Jing abandons all pride.

Notes: 1. Heroine—max combat stats, general-turned-powerful official. Hero—green tea (scheming) coquettish wife archetype. 2. Hero IS the deceased wife! Hero isn't short—prior cross-dressing used compressed version; true form is tall.

【Mini Theater】

Xie Jing stumbles by the pond. His husband catches his waist, preventing a fall. The stern young general's attentiveness makes Xie Jing avert his gaze: "Could I... be a cut-sleeve?"

During midnight thunder, Yu Qing is summoned to her wife's chamber where the princess tearfully whispers: "I'm too scared to sleep. Will you stay?" Yu Qing holds her, musing: "Well, being with a woman isn't so bad."

Shen Tang transmigrated into a book. But Shen Tang wasn't flustered at all. Because she transmigrated as a minor character, having no connection to the male or female leads, and even less to the plot of the book. Someone wanted to set her up with a partner. Thinking she hadn't married yet, she figured, "If it's marriage, then marry." So, she flash-married her blind date. The result? She flash-married the male lead??? The male lead became her husband??? Heavens, what on earth happened? How did the male lead become her husband!!! The even bigger problem was, this male lead kept flirting with her constantly!!!

Fu Tingyuan awakened and discovered he was the male lead in an abusive CEO novel. According to the plot, in the future, he was supposed to fall in love at first sight with the "white lotus" female lead, love her uncontrollably, then become increasingly obsessive, disregarding whether she had someone she liked, using all sorts of methods to force her to stay by his side, ultimately driving the female lead to commit suicide because she refused to be with him. Fu Tingyuan was utterly speechless. Had he broken a heavenly rule to be so brainless? Wasn't the wife arranged by his family, the one suitable for him, more appealing? She was truly too appealing; he'd feel sorry for himself if he didn't flirt with her.

Forced into marriage by her stepmother, An Nuan decided to marry. On the day of her blind date, she flash-married a stranger.

After marriage, the man's first words were, "I'll support you." An Nuan only considered this a scam. Unexpectedly, he transformed into an utterly doting husband, showering her with cars, houses, and jewelry until she couldn't hold any more.

What surprised her most was that whenever she encountered difficulties, he would always appear in time to solve them. When she asked, he would fiercely praise his wife's capabilities. Until...