After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Ended Up in a Ridiculous Marriage with the Cold-Faced Duke

[Transmigration into a book, marriage before love, equal parts sweet and satisfying]

For four whole years, she worked hard to support the man she was to marry while he studied for the imperial examinations.

She thought she would be rewarded with a phoenix coronet, but on the day he came top of the exam, all she got was a breezy remark from another woman:

"Give him to me."

Everything she'd spent those years building collapsed in an instant.

But her regret lasted only a moment. Su Wantang coldly held out her hand.

"Hand it over."

"Hand over what?"

"The money I've spent on you all this time. Hand it over."

Resolved to live a new life, Su Wantang set off for the capital.

But can someone tell her this:

Why has the cold-faced Duke, rumored to hold power over the entire court and to be above all desire, suddenly cornered her against a wall?

"Would you be willing to marry me?"

She didn't mean she wanted to marry a duke when she said that!