[Love Before Marriage × Devoted, Faithful Couple × Marriage Between Powerful Families]
The man's burning palm gripped her waist. His scorching breath brushed her ear, and his husky voice carried an irresistible command:
“Say my name.”
She squeezed her eyes shut, her chest heaving.
“Shy now?” A deep voice suddenly came from behind her. “You weren't so reserved when you were clinging to me last night.”
At a family banquet, Fu Jinyan put an arm around her slender waist in front of everyone, only to be mocked: “Does CEO Fu pursue every woman this relentlessly?” They only dared whisper behind her back that she was a little liar.
To reclaim the shares her mother, Su He, was entitled to, she agreed to marry Fu Jinyan.
But when the layers of the conspiracy were peeled back, Gu Ju discovered that this marriage, which had begun as an act of revenge, concealed a shocking secret about an auction fifteen years earlier: “There was a boy who was only fourteen at the time. He held up his bidding paddle and refused to put it down, saying he wanted to give it to his future bride.”
It turned out she'd been the bride he'd chosen for himself when he was fourteen.