Contract Marriage: The CEO Helps Me Get Revenge, and It’s Sweeter Than Ever

[Marriage of convenience + love after marriage + reunion after years apart + revenge and a search for the truth + sweet romance]

“Plagiarism! Murder!”

Three years ago, Su Qingyuan was branded a “murderer of her mentor.” Her mentor, Lin Wanzhou, fell to her death, and the final set of Frosted Branches painting drafts disappeared without a trace. Su Qingyuan went from being a rising star in the jewelry world to a public pariah, and had to flee for her life in the middle of the night.

Three years later, she clutches half of a jade pendant carved with entwining lotus vines and slips into a Lu family banquet, intent only on stealing back her mentor's drafts. But Lu Shiyan corners her in the VIP room. Gripping her waist, he runs his fingertip over the jade pendant at her neck, his eyes roiling with emotion. “Sign it! One year of marriage by contract.”

Only then does Su Qingyuan learn that this half-pendant is connected to the person who saved his life, whom he has been searching for for ten years.

After the wedding, she finally understands: this isn't a transaction. It's a deadly trap set by the Lu family.

Yet Lu Shiyan keeps protecting her from the shadows!

Only when a secret letter from her mother is unearthed in the Lu family's basement does Su Qingyuan lose her mind. Her mother is alive!

Then Lu Shiyan suddenly takes her hand and presses the matching half of the pendant into her palm. “Ten years ago, on Qingfeng Mountain, you gave me half of this jade and said, ‘Wait for me to find you’...”

Before she can react, Lu Zhenxiong has already aimed his gun at her. Lu Shiyan shields her with his body, pointing the gun at his own chest.

Watching the man's resolute back, she suddenly remembers the old photograph he kept hidden in a drawer. On that rainy day ten years ago, a little girl in a blue dress was handing a roasted sweet potato to a boy, the crescent-shaped scar on her arm glinting in the light...