A Strategic Marriage of Convenience: The Abstinent Tycoon Falls Hard for Me

(Marriage alliance + laissez-faire attitude + domineering CEO + long-laid plans + secret identity + marriage first, love later + revenge and crushing scumbags + contract marriage)

My mother spent her entire dowry helping my father rise to the top, only to be betrayed because she struggled to bear him a son. She died heartbroken.

My stepmother seized her belongings, and my biological father cared only about profit. At nineteen, Yu Nianqing, a jade-carving prodigy, agreed to marry into a powerful family to reclaim her mother's business.

A servant photographed the back of a man wearing a Chinese tunic suit. She assumed her husband was a laid-back, retired official over forty, so she readily signed a five-year agreement to stay out of each other's affairs. After the wedding, she planned to take it easy and focus on her career, then divorce amicably when their time was up.

Little did she know that Lu Jici, head of the Lu family, presented himself to the world as a retired young master who spent his days drinking tea and practicing calligraphy. In truth, he was a cold-blooded power broker who had secretly loved her for twelve years.

He used threats and enticements to secure their engagement, then secretly registered their marriage overseas, keeping her firmly by his side.

On the night he returned to the country, the young, devastatingly handsome man who held all the power in the city was about to personally shatter every one of her retirement dreams…