[Marriage first, love later, devoted to each other, rational CEO male lead × clear-headed and independent female lead]
To save my family, I married Qin Yan, the fearsome “Buddha-faced Yama” of the capital.
A contract, with a three-year term. He paid, I played the part. We were affectionate in public and strangers in private.
I kept to my role, waiting for the contract to end so I could take the money and leave. That is, until his first love returned from abroad and laughed in front of everyone, calling me “a knockoff bought with money.”
I gripped my wineglass, ready to make a graceful exit.
Instead, he smashed his glass and slapped our marriage certificate in her face.
“Take a good look. She’s my wife, recognized by the state, legal and the only one.”
That night, he barged into my bedroom for the first time, the corners of his eyes bloodshot. He scattered the torn contract all over me.
“Three years? I’ve changed my mind. Su Wanyi, I want a lifetime.”
Later, with my hand on my pregnant belly, I watched the CEO cook for me and finally believed him.
So this contract marriage he had orchestrated had been, from the very beginning, the sweetest cage he had carefully built for me.
