A contract sent her to his bed.
Everyone in Jiangcheng knew that Huo Yanshen was the most ruthless hunter in business, a man who never made a losing deal. To save her family business from bankruptcy, Jiang Wanxing signed a two-year marriage contract and became Huo Yanshen’s wife in name only.
He said, “All you have to do is be Mrs. Huo. In two years, I’ll set you free and wipe out your family’s debts.”
She thought it was just a transaction, unaware that she had long since become a pawn on his chessboard.
By day, she was the docile Mrs. Huo, accompanying him to events and playing the perfect partner. At night, she slept in the room next to the master bedroom, keeping a clear line between them. The Huo family saw her as a scheming woman who had used underhanded tactics to marry up, while the public mocked her as a commodity who had traded her body for money.
Jiang Wanxing silently endured the accusations, secretly restoring her family business and waiting for the contract to expire so she could leave.
Until one rainy night, when she tore away her gentle facade to save him after he was injured in an accident, revealing a decisiveness that left him stunned. For the first time, he truly saw the woman who was his “contract wife.”
What shocked Huo Yanshen even more was that he could no longer tolerate other men looking at her, nor accept the departure she had planned. As her secret identity slowly came to light and her former lover reappeared, he finally realized:
In this carefully planned transaction, the price of falling in love was far higher than he had imagined.
“Jiang Wanxing, I’m unilaterally voiding the contract.” He cornered her against the wall, his gaze burning. “This time, the price is the rest of my life.”