A Wife Falls From the Sky, and Mr. Xie Goes From Polite Refusal to Completely Smitten

Contract Marriage × Powerful Man Bows His Head × The Chase for His Wife × She Turns the Tables Bai Su never expected that, to repay the debt of gratitude for her grandfather’s life, Old Master Xie would push her into a marriage with Xie Huaijin. On the eve of registering their marriage, he handed her an agreement: Keep the marriage secret. Once the old man had been given an explanation, the Xie family would compensate her with two hundred million, and then they would go their separate ways. After the wedding, she was content to be invisible. She never clung to him or asked for anything, keeping a safe distance from this favored son of heaven. But after spending every day together, their souls in sync, she eventually gave him her heart, mistakenly believing that the iceberg had fallen for her, too. Until one day, she heard his friend ask him, “Huaijin, why would you marry a woman with no connections?” The man’s usually indifferent voice held not the slightest emotion. “My elders pushed her on me. It was just an agreement.” “You didn’t feel anything for her at all?” “No. How could I possibly fall for her?” His casual words shattered every hope she had. Later, her mother-in-law threw two hundred million at her and told her to get lost. Bai Su promptly flung the card back in her face and walked away with her head held high. Xie Huaijin married Bai Su purely out of filial piety and had no expectations of their loveless marriage. But somewhere along the way, he developed unexpected feelings for the cool, stubborn girl. Yet she treated him, her “husband by agreement,” with polite distance, making his wholehearted sincerity seem like a joke he’d played on himself. So when people questioned him, he chose the stupidest kind of stubborn denial. Only after she really left did he finally panic. Later, everyone in Beijing’s elite circle said the Xie family’s lofty patriarch had gone mad. In the pouring rain, he blocked her car, his eyes red as he begged her to turn back. Bai Su stood to one side under her umbrella, looking down at him. “Mr. Xie, we can remarry, but first pay the emotional damages and breach-of-contract fee. I don’t do freebies.”