After Marrying in Her Place, I Became the CEO’s Wife

Cen Kaiyan, the lone daughter of a wealthy family, has spent nineteen years living like a ghost in the Cen household. Her parents died under mysterious circumstances, and her uncle Cen Yan'geng seized the family fortune, leaving her dependent on others and forced to lie low. Then her cousin Cen Kaixin, desperate to escape an arranged marriage, set a vicious trap to ruin Kaiyan’s reputation and turn her into a pawn in a proxy marriage. She didn’t plead or run. Calmly accepting the poisoned fruit, she turned around and struck a dangerous deal with the man she was meant to marry: Song Xiaoyao, the “Cold-Faced King of Hell,” a terrifying figure in the business world of He City. A contract marriage, for three years. He would give her power and connections, help her reclaim the family fortune and uncover the truth behind her parents’ brutal deaths; She would give him a legitimate “Mrs. Song” and a business partner he could bind himself to for the long term. From then on, beneath the mask of a meek, timid orphan was a hunter who planned each step with care. Amid false family affection, circling wolves, and the grand chess game of a marriage between powerful families, she would take back everything that belonged to her. And Song Xiaoyao gradually discovered that the “contract wife” he had once regarded as nothing more than a pawn concealed a quiet resilience and sharp edge beneath her cool composure. They began with schemes and a transaction, yet on the darkest roads they traveled, they unexpectedly became the only ones who could walk side by side. In this chess game played under the name of marriage, who will be the last one standing? In a nutshell: She takes her sister’s place in an arranged marriage, thinking she is a pawn for others to manipulate, but becomes the one “general” on his board that no one can touch. Highlights: The ultimate substitute-and-revenge story: She starts out as a replacement, but this is no conventional tragic romance. The heroine quietly grows stronger in dire circumstances and ultimately wins a one-of-a-kind devotion.