After Our Contract Marriage, My Sickly Husband Can't Keep Up the Act

[Career-Driven, Cool CEO x Sweet-on-the-Outside, Dark-on-the-Inside Psychotic Beauty with a Frail Constitution]

To reclaim her inheritance, Gu Wanzhou, the capital's most career-obsessed woman, known as the "Ice Queen," has to get married within three months.

After weighing her options, she chooses the third young master of the Xie family, Xie Zhiyu, who is rumored to be sickly and unlikely to live past thirty.

He's handsome, obedient, and from a good family. Most importantly, he's so ill he's practically at death's door, making him the perfect short-term contract husband.

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After the wedding, Gu Wanzhou focuses on her career, treating him like a pretty little pet she's taken in.

People in their circle mock her for being so desperate that she'd marry a "sickly weakling" just for the family fortune.

Her business rivals are even waiting to laugh when her husband dies young and the Xie family kicks her out.

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Then, at a banquet, Gu Wanzhou is cornered by rivals who have drugged her.

Everyone thinks her "frail" husband will be trembling with fear. Instead, Xie Zhiyu calmly crushes a wineglass, his blood-red eyes burning with murderous fury.

He kicks the man leading the group aside, drapes his jacket over Gu Wanzhou, and says in a hoarse voice, consumed by possessiveness, "She's mine. Who dares touch her?"

The room falls silent.

Only then does everyone realize that the seemingly harmless third young master of the Xie family is actually the mysterious ruthless kingpin who controls a vast criminal empire overseas!