After Our Whirlwind Marriage, Mr. Qi Had Been Planning This All Along

[Marriage First, Love Later + Sweet Romance with an Older Man + Business Feud and Revenge + Mutual Firsts]

[Heiress in Distress × Unhinged Power Broker]

Her father lay in the ICU, the Shi Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, and her fiancé was trending online with a starlet in his arms!

Her former future mother-in-law forced her to marry into a collateral branch of the Qi family. “The Shi family has fallen on hard times. Don’t think you can marry up and get my son!”

With nowhere else to turn, Shi Jinhe rushed toward the man standing in the snowstorm. “Qi Sicheng, will you marry me?”

The crowd erupted!

That was Master Qi, the ruthless man who controlled half of Jingzhou’s economic lifeline, and he was also her former fiancé’s uncle!

No one could believe it when Qi Sicheng actually nodded. “Fine! We’ll register our marriage in seven days.”

Everyone thought it was a transaction where each would get what they wanted.

Only Qi Sicheng knew the truth: he had waited ten years for this marriage.

Later, rumors spread across Jingzhou that Master Qi doted on his wife like she was his whole world.

His scumbag nephew harassed her? He had him sent straight to prison.

A rival heiress splashed red wine on her? He splashed it right back. “You laid a hand on my wife. Did you think to ask me first?”

Shi Jinhe thought she had married a powerful protector.

Until she found a yellowed photograph. On the back were just four words:

“Wait until you grow up.”

The date written below was from ten years ago.

Only then did she realize that she hadn’t been the first to make a move in this marriage.