We're Not Close! Marrying an Old-Fashioned Man for Money and Power

A cold, wealthy, gentlemanly old-fashioned man + a gifted young woman with sky-high self-esteem and a teasing streak

[Both are romantically inexperienced + age gap + groveling pursuit + contrasting charm]

Blurb: “Marrying Huo Yiting isn’t the goal. Using him is what matters.”

Xia Huaixi has been a mama’s girl since childhood and has never doubted her mother’s words.

But this time, she never imagined that the man her mother had arranged for her to marry would be Huo Yiting.

Outsiders know only that Huo Yiting, the man in charge, is cold and old-fashioned, and still avoids women at thirty-two. They have no idea that late at night, he dreams only of Xia Huaixi’s lips.

On the very first day Xia Huaixi enters the Huo family with a mask of meek obedience, she knows exactly what she wants.

She’ll listen to her mother and use him, tempt him into falling for her, but never give him her heart.

She is the one moving the pieces, yet step by step, she falls into the web he has spun.

“Mrs. Huo, using me comes at a price, ”

He leans down, his gaze dark. “For example, spend your whole life using me. Your whole life.”