A Marriage of Convenience with the Ice-Cold Heiress

Updated December 24, 2025. Also known as: Winter Romance

Wen Yan is an orthopedic surgeon. With her remarkable stamina and sharp mind, she was performing surgeries at a young age.

Every day in the operating room, she swung her orthopedic mallet with a steady rhythm, like a construction crew chanting, “Eighty, eighty...”

Just after finishing surgery one day, she got a call from her mother: her twin brother, who was supposed to marry into the Jin family, had suddenly run away from the wedding.

Before fleeing, he left her a voice message: “Sis! Jin Zijin is an ice-cold demon! You take my place and marry her!!!”

Wen Yan: “...”

The Jin family was truly old money. Her family had only managed to forge ties with them thanks to a favor owed to their ancestors. And just like that, she had been “sold off.”

On their wedding night, Jin Zijin said coolly, “I’m a traditional person. Since we’re married, we’ll do everything a married couple is supposed to do.”

Wen Yan nodded obediently. “O-Okay.”

But who was she?

An orthopedic surgeon who swung a heavy mallet every day and did fingertip push-ups. There was no way she’d be outmatched.

That night, the balance of power shifted.

Three days later, when they visited Wen Yan’s family, her mother took her hand sympathetically. “Zijin is so cold-natured. You must have had a hard time.”

Wen Yan stammered, “I-It wasn’t so bad.”

She remembered how Jin Zijin had melted in her arms that night and thought... she wasn’t cold at all.

In short, before she knew it, she’d fallen in love after marrying an icy heiress.

Capable, earnest 0.9 x cold-faced, clingy cat 0.1

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ˉMarriage first, love later; pretend romance turns real

Dumped right before her wedding, Shen Jihan was left humiliated.

After her ex said, “You only love your work. You don’t know how to love someone,” she went straight to her childhood friend. “Find me someone better than her. Right now.”

That very night, Chu Xi removed her bone pins, hid her tattoos, and sat down in a simple white dress, looking gentle and refined.

Shen Jihan sized up the poised, elegant woman before her and slid over a contract. “Sign it. I’ll help you dodge your arranged marriage, and you’ll pretend to be in love with me.”

The next day, Shen Jihan and Chu Xi got their marriage licenses.

Chu Xi played her part perfectly.

Gentle and attentive in public, perceptive and tactful in private, she played the role of “Mrs. Shen” to perfection. Everyone in their circle turned green with envy and praised Shen Jihan for having such a “wonderful wife.”

Shen Jihan grew more and more enamored, plotting how to turn their pretend romance into something real.

Until one night, a violent commotion erupted in the corridor of a club.

Shen Jihan spotted a familiar figure standing with one foot on a man’s head as shards of a broken bottle flew everywhere.

The woman casually tossed back her hair and turned her face toward her

It was her “fragile” wife, who had always been poised and proper, spoken gently, and fainted at the sight of blood.

·

Only later did Shen Jihan understand:

There was no such thing as a match made in heaven. Someone had carefully staged an entire world of tenderness just for her.

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Theme: Sometimes fate pushes us to a terrible turning point, and that may be where happiness begins!