A three-year marriage contract and a check. She thought it was nothing more than a cold transaction.
When Su Wan married Lu Heng, she knew her role: a poised, quiet “Mrs. Lu” who never caused trouble. He gave her unimaginable wealth and status, but drew the clearest of boundaries: no talk of love, no matters of the heart, and once the term was up, they would go their separate ways.
She kept to her place, quietly growing in his world and burying the feelings she should never have had. Until the contract’s final night, when she took off her ring and smiled distantly. “Mr. Lu, time’s up.”
“Su Wan.” He held her captive in his arms, his breath burning hot, his eyes dark as night. “I’ve extended the contract unilaterally.”
“This time, the term is a lifetime.”
A marriage born of a mistake, and a battle between two proud souls.
She wants freedom and dignity, but he wants to build her a castle she can never escape.
When forceful tenderness meets resolute clarity, can this overdue love find a way through the thorns of reality and lead them to each other?
