Clever-but-unassuming heroine / marriage first, love later / male supporting characters’ groveling redemption / both leads are virgins
Xi Qiaoqiao was the top songbird in Nancheng, and a human scorecard with impossibly high standards.
While other songbirds plotted how to marry into wealth, she was facing retirement. To save her own skin, she was threatened into going straight through a hasty marriage.
That was what happened when all four of the most powerful men in Nancheng were suddenly pushed into arranged marriages at the same time.
The sickly, possessive heir to an aristocratic family, a nine out of ten; her stiff, scholarly adoptive brother, an eight; the arrogant CEO of a trillion-yuan conglomerate, an eight; and a gloomy, cold, old-school official, a seven.
Her colleagues envied her, but money always came with risk.
When the big shots wanted to cut ties with her, she couldn’t stop them. She could just take the money and leave.
It was fine. She still had her perfect-score husband.
Qin Nanan, a top male model with lean muscles, long legs, a captivating voice, money, and good looks.
He couldn’t measure up to the Four Lords of Nancheng, and he was a little cold and overly lustful and clingy, but he treated her well enough.
It was only after the powerful men who had once towered over her lost her that they realized they couldn’t live without her.
When they found out she had married someone else, they went mad, groveling and losing all composure.
“Come back to me, or I’ll kill that man.”
“Darling, take pity on me. I’m sick again, and you’re the only one who can cure me.”
“Here, take the knife. You can do whatever you want to me.”
“I’d make a better dog than him. What does he have that I don’t? Why choose him over me?”
Xi Qiaoqiao smiled nonchalantly and called over her current husband to show them exactly what they were missing.
“Take a good look. Compared to him, none of you even qualify.”
The men looked up in protest, then stared in shock.
Wasn’t that the heir’s uncle?
The ruler of an ancient, secretive family, said to possess unfathomable wealth and power beyond measure.
He could crush them with a single finger.
Qin Nanan sat in his place of honor, holding tightly to the wife he had finally won.
He looked down at them coldly. “Hurry up and get out!”
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