I Played the Good Girl and Married a Beijing Big Shot, and He Spoiled Me Rotten

[Marriage First, Love Later + Beijing Social Elite + Sweet Romance + Pretend-to-be-Good Girl Heroine + Mutual Healing]

To fill a two-hundred-million-yuan hole, the Xu family forced Xu Zhizhi to marry Mr. Song, a forty-six-year-old man.

The night before her engagement, dressed in her most demure white dress, she knocked on the door of Zhou Xuchuan, a powerful figure in Beijing's elite circles.

“Mr. Zhou, are you looking for a wife? One year, and we keep our feelings out of it.”

Knowing full well her motives were impure, Zhou Xuchuan still signed the marriage agreement.

Everyone thought Xu Zhizhi was weak and easy to bully. Only he knew her obedient demeanor was all an act. She used his influence to tear apart the arranged marriage and set traps for her stepmother, all to uncover the truth behind her mother's death.

When her father publicly smeared her, he defended his wife in front of everyone: “My wife doesn't need anyone's permission to live her life.”

When her mother's final work was stolen, he halted a six-hundred-million-yuan investment with a single word: “If she says there's a problem, investigate it to the end.”

They had agreed to be married for only one year, but he stood up for her, shielded her from harm, and spoiled the girl who had never been anyone's favorite until she became his little princess.

Then a brass key resurfaced. A falsified medical record, a missing silver thimble, and the trusts left behind by their mothers all pointed to safe-deposit box B17.

Only then did Xu Zhizhi realize that this whirlwind marriage had never been an accident.

Eleven years ago, she had given a key to a young Zhou Xuchuan.

And what he had guarded all this time was far more than just a key.