The Bride in the Substitute Marriage Is the Queen of the Night

To handle his family’s arranged marriage, Fu Chenzhou, the capital’s most eligible heir, married Shen Ci, the least remarkable illegitimate daughter of the Shen family. They signed the agreement without hesitation: divorce after one year, and no interference in each other’s lives. On their wedding night, he tossed her a black card. “Be a pretty ornament and don’t cause me trouble.” Then he moved into a private villa and never showed his face again. Shen Ci nodded obediently, but that very night she infiltrated the Fu Group’s firewall, recovered three misappropriated overseas funds, and sent the evidence to the anti-corruption bureau. A month later, the Fu Group was hit by a business crisis. As Fu Chenzhou struggled to deal with it, he suddenly discovered that his grandfather treated Shen Ci with the utmost respect and called her “little benefactor”; the heir to the Gu family, his sworn enemy, turned and ran the moment he saw her, his legs shaking; even Interpol sent a letter of thanks to “Ms. Shen” for helping crack an international arms-trafficking case. He started to panic and secretly searched her wardrobe. Hidden among her ordinary, inexpensive clothes was the “Queen of the Dark Night” insignia, owned by only three people in the entire world. Then came a dilemma: he wanted to divorce her to cut his losses, but Shen Ci took the initiative and laid it all out. “Clause 17 of our agreement says the second party must not harm the first party’s interests. How much do you think the Fu Group’s stock would fall if I exposed the fact that you married a ‘dangerous criminal’?” Gritting his teeth, he put up with it and kept pretending to be clueless. Until the day Shen Ci took a bullet meant for him from a kidnapper. The bullet grazed her temple. She twisted around, snapped the kidnapper’s neck, then turned to look at him, her eyes cold as ice. “Fu Chenzhou, when are you finally going to admit that you’ve fallen in love with me?”