A high-stakes merger war waged in the name of marriage
The ultimate psychological game, with their heartbeats on the line
Shen Qingci never imagined that the first “deadlock she couldn’t resolve” as a crisis negotiator would be her own marriage. For her gravely ill father and her family company on the brink of collapse, she signs a harsh contract and becomes the legal wife of her chief rival, Gu Chengzhou.
This marriage has a fixed price:
She plays the perfect wife in exchange for giving her family a chance to catch its breath.
He gets a respectable marriage that conceals the last “emotional vulnerability” in his business plans.
The contract lasts three years, then automatically ends, with their assets divided and settled.
But Shen Qingci doesn’t know that this seemingly cold transaction was set in motion ten years ago. A fleeting glimpse in their youth, and the one warm look he received amid the ruins of a business catastrophe, became the only “non-standard asset” Gu Chengzhou could neither calculate nor stop himself from claiming as he built his vast financial empire.
She thinks this is a cold deal in which they each get what they need. She doesn’t know that she is the one “merger” he has spent ten years plotting to win.
