Marry first, fall in love later + devoted CEO + revenge on scum + ex-husband gets his comeuppance + sweet, satisfying romance + contract marriage + strong female lead
[Clear-headed, independent heroine & secretly devoted, restrained CEO] Both leads are devoted to each other alone
My ex-husband stole our family fortune, plagiarized my designs, and caused a car crash. As I lay on the operating table, all I wanted was to die so I could have my revenge!
But who could have guessed that the Gu family heir, a man the whole city treated with deference, would kick open the emergency room doors and pull me back from death, his eyes red with emotion?
He tossed me a contract and declared, “Marry me. I’ll hand you the knife, and you can do the killing! The entire Gu Group will be the strongest support you and your girls could ask for!” He pretended he had been in love with me for three years.
I scoffed, assuming it was just a phony excuse from a businessman.
But this deal was a steal!
From then on, I led my design team in tearing my scumbag ex to shreds, overcoming every obstacle and fighting my way back to the top of the design world!
My ex-husband regretted everything and knelt to beg me to remarry him on my wedding day. Get lost. Don’t dirty the path of my revenge!
I thought this was just a transaction where we each got what we wanted. But that decisive, ruthless man would only stand behind me, tenderly rubbing my hand and asking, “Niannian, does your hand hurt? Next time, let me handle this kind of dirty work.”
Gradually, I lost myself in his three years of tenderness, believing that was the whole story.
It wasn’t until we sent our mutual enemy to prison that I found a rusty iron box hidden in a compartment in his study.
There were no business secrets inside, only two diaries dating back to 1998. Every page was filled with love for me, stretching back a full twenty-three years... Why would a man so carefully disguise twenty years of deep love as three years of “careful planning”?”
