Forced into a Contract Marriage with an Iceberg Beauty

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Before marriage: max-level strength, money-loving bodyguard x icy, jealous, tsundere rich woman

After marriage: playful, puppy-like top x deceptively cute, white-rabbit bottom

Marriage first, love later | silly, sweet romance | happy ending

[The little bodyguard brings a stunning, delicate little housekeeper home]

Blurb ▲:

As a super bodyguard on an elite team, Ji Nancen has maxed-out combat skills and breathtaking good looks. She's the perfect embodiment of the visual spectacle that is the beauty of violence.

By day, she protects the powerful and earns a million a year. At night, she takes high-paying missions. She makes so much money her hands cramp, yet still complains about being broke every day.

She has a little quirk: she's obsessed with money and loves picking up random things to sell for scrap. One night, she picked up a gorgeous woman and brought her home.

When she woke up, the soft, fragrant beauty who had somehow slipped into her arms was gazing at her sleepily, her smile breathtaking. Ji Nancen's body and soul both lost their defenses in an instant.

*

Su Yuxi had lost her memory. Who was she? Where was she? Had her Great Qing dynasty fallen? She couldn't answer a single question.

Ji Nancen's little scheme clicked along like clockwork. A housekeeper falling from the sky was too good to pass up, so she quickly took in this naive little white rabbit.

With her silver tongue, she coaxed Su Yuxi into nodding along like a fool. And so Su Yuxi unlocked her new skill as a top-notch housekeeper.

The little housekeeper cooked until the kitchen caught fire and did laundry until the living room flooded. But Ji Nancen suffered worst of all: she got food poisoning from the meals and almost died at home.

Su Yuxi, who used to wait obediently every day for her owner to come home and feed her, suddenly disappeared.

Blurb ◆:

When they met again, the little housekeeper had transformed into an elegant, icy heiress.

Armed with a valuable demolition compensation contract, she forced the little miser to sign a completely one-sided sham-marriage agreement.

Su Yuxi: "We're going to the marriage bureau right now."

Ji Nancen: "This is a year-long contract, so it'll cost extra~"

Su Yuxi: "You tricked me into being your housekeeper and you still want money? If you don't marry me, you'll be single for life."

Ji Nancen: "I'm in! Even if Jesus himself showed up today, I'd still get a marriage license with you."

Every one of the eleven clauses in the sham-marriage agreement was a pit dug to bury Ji Nancen alive.

She tearfully stepped into the grave of marriage, working a harder-than-coffee grind by day and like an exhausted ox in bed by night, all to please her wife and trick her into giving her more living expenses.

One night, drunk and miserable, Ji Nancen sang The Dancer's Tears: "Driven by life's cruel demands, I swallow every tear. Is this my fate, to spend my whole life amid the dust and grime?"

Bonus Scene: The First Bouquet ▼:

Ji Nancen went to a flower village and came back with a whole truckload of sunflowers.

At five in the morning, she stood in the garden presenting her gift, holding a megaphone and putting on a lovestruck voice. "Oh! My dear wife, you are my sun, and I will always look up to you!"

The line was so cheesy it made Su Yuxi's scalp prickle. Standing by the window, she wanted nothing more than to throw a slipper at her. "What a show-off. Are you crazy?!"

After being shut out, Ji Nancen sat with her legs crossed, cracking sunflower seeds. "Wife! You can roast sunflower seeds from these sunflowers. I'll make you some~"

A few notes:

One couple, both strong | commissioned cover art also serves as character design | sweet romance overload

Trapped in Love After Marriage: Upcoming Novel

Retired special forces soldier, the strongest around x top-tier jealous, obsessive, crazy sugar mommy

After marriage: younger wolfish top with great stamina x alluring, cool queen bottom

Revenge against scum, satisfying read | unconventional kept lover | sweet marriage story

Also known as Spoiled Without Restraint by a Crazy, Beautiful Sugar Mommy

Your eyes are the center of all things. Love never waits for fate; I've already set out toward spring.

1.

Cheng Sangluo was one of the handful of outstanding female soldiers in the special forces. She had endured life and death under gunfire, but couldn't withstand the treachery of human hearts.

After retiring, she was framed and thrown into prison.

Her family despised her, her girlfriend betrayed her alongside her enemies, her savings were drained in compensation, and she lost everything, including her reputation.

After her release, she was depressed and destitute when she met Lin Jin, who stood at the top of the food chain and took her home like a stray dog with nowhere to go.

By some muddled twist of fate, she latched onto a long-term meal ticket and went from soldier to kept lover.

A kept lover who didn't have to put out every night? Did that even count? Cheng Sangluo became Lin Jin's driver, nanny, assistant, bodyguard, and all-around servant, just short of serving her meals right on her lap.

From then on, the golden finger lit up Cheng Sangluo's lifeless world, and she began her revenge with a cheat-code advantage.

*

Financial investment tycoon Lin Jin was worth over a hundred million. She was ruthless in business, cold-hearted, and vengeful.

Rumor had it that the elegant President Lin changed women more often than clothes and spent every night partying, trying every trick in the book.

Her sudden marriage announcement caused an uproar. Everyone was stunned, wondering which extraordinary woman had won the exclusive favor of their aloof beauty.

The huge diamond on Cheng Sangluo's hand dazzled the crowd. Her sugar mommy had become her wife.

It was only a love deal in which each got what they wanted. The two signed a sham-marriage contract: show affection in public, do as they please in private, then part on good terms after three years.

2.

Beneath Lin Jin's cool, flirtatious exterior lay an obsessive, lovesick heart. She was charming and unpredictable, with an almost pathological possessiveness and need for control over Cheng Sangluo.

Her overwhelming affection wrapped around Cheng Sangluo like an airtight night, suffocating her and yet leaving her addicted.

Three years of being changed wore down Cheng Sangluo's solitary courage and fiery spirit. She saw the world's cruelty clearly and lost the ability to love.

Lin Jin was an iceberg in the Antarctic, yet she crossed the ocean without hesitation just to embrace another iceberg that had yet to find its spring.

On the night they first tasted pleasure, she bit Cheng Sangluo's shoulder. Her eyes were rimmed with an uncontrolled flush, and her lips stained with red blood. "I'll help you. Those people will end up under your feet. There's only one condition: give yourself to me."

This writer's still terrible at blurbs, but is working hard to get better...

[Reading Guide]

1. Satisfying revenge story, marriage first, love later

2. Same-sex marriage is legal in this setting

3. Commissioned cover art also serves as character design

4. Happy ending. I'm stuffing sweet treats into your mouths, so eat up!

Theme: Independence and self-reliance lead to a prosperous life