My Substitute Bride, the CEO Spoils Me Rotten

Liu Yuru uses the keepsake my mother left behind to blackmail me, forcing me to marry into the Gu family in Lin Weiwei’s place. On the wedding day, Lin Weiwei wears the wedding dress that should have been mine, shoves me to the ground in front of everyone, and sneers, “Lin Wan, you’re a fake heiress nobody wants. What makes you think you deserve to marry Gu Shuchen?” I clutch my skirt, convinced this marriage will be nothing but endless misery. But Gu Shuchen, the Gu Group’s CEO, is rumored to be cold, taciturn, and uninterested in women. He walks straight over, bends down to help me up, and sweeps the room with a fierce gaze. “The Gu family’s young madam can only be her.” On our wedding night, he keeps it brief: “This is a marriage of convenience. We stay out of each other’s way.” Yet when he turns away, he remembers I don’t eat cilantro and quietly picks it out of my bowl. When Liu Yuru shows up demanding money, he steps in front of me and refuses her without hesitation. When Lin Weiwei frames me, he produces evidence and stands up for me. No one knows that this fake heiress, bullied until she can barely hold her head up, has an international top-tier design qualification, is a silent shareholder in several publicly listed companies, and founded a charity foundation that has quietly done good for years. As my secret identities are revealed one after another, the people who once looked down on me and bullied me all bow their heads and try to win my favor. And Gu Shuchen, the man who has been cold his entire life, corners me outside my studio, his voice hoarse but earnest. “Wanwan, I was wrong. I didn’t know how to cherish you before. For the rest of our lives, I’ll cherish only you and protect you for good.” From a contract couple forced into a marriage of convenience to lovers who choose each other wholeheartedly; from a fake heiress who swallowed every slight to a woman who shines brilliantly in her own right. No contrived misunderstandings, no over-the-top female rivalry, just genuinely satisfying moments and tender warmth, with everyone getting a happy ending.