A Contract Marriage: Mr. Gu, You’ll Have to Listen to Me for the Rest of Your Life

[Love After Marriage, A Long-Laid Plan] My name is Qiao Zhiyu, a no-name, B-list actress in the entertainment industry. I was standing below the stage at an awards ceremony, playing the background extra no one would ever notice, when an urgent phone call dragged me back to the place I technically called home. I opened the door to find two unfamiliar faces sitting in the living room. Before I could recover, Mrs. Qin, the woman who was technically my mother, casually told me I had been adopted. She handed me a check as if settling a long-overdue transaction. As if that weren't ridiculous enough, I also had an older sister, Qiao Zhiyan, the adopted daughter they had carefully raised. And I was nothing more than a tool, summoned at the last minute to be married off for the family's benefit. With my mind made up, I headed to my usual boxing gym. As luck would have it, someone had come to challenge the place. The man was all menace, his blows ruthless: Gu Jingchen. With the thought that no one else deserved to have things go well either, I walked up and deliberately struck up a conversation. “Want to get married? The kind that makes my family furious.” He raised an eyebrow, then actually smiled. “Perfect. I need someone to marry, too.” We got our marriage license that very day. It wasn't until our families officially met that I froze in place. The “contract husband” I'd roped in to play a part was actually… the very man I was supposed to marry for the alliance.