Miss Diamond

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When Ye Wu was ten, she watched her mother leap from the tallest building in S City's bustling downtown. Behind her mother's all-consuming love lay an all-consuming madness.

Her mother's madness was taking her own life to punish her unfaithful husband. Her father's madness was fathering an illegitimate son two years older than Ye Wu and, to secure the boy's position, deciding to wipe Ye Wu off the face of the earth.

One spring day, her grandfather picked Jiang Shubai's photo from a table full of men's pictures. "He seems like a suitable match for you."

Picking up his photo, Ye Wu smiled carelessly. "I have no intention of finding a husband with too much power."

Her grandfather smiled. "At the very least, he should be better than your ex-boyfriend."

*

From the very beginning of their arranged marriage, Ye Wu knew perfectly well that all she wanted was a business alliance. The Jiang family's power and the Ye family's money were a match made in heaven.

She simply wanted to get a good price for her marriage.

For a while, she was afraid Jiang Shubai might actually fall for her. But she never expected that he understood the meaning of a business marriage and a marriage in name only even better than she did.

At their first blind date, he arrived fifteen minutes late, his shirt collar undone and marked with a woman's lipstick.

He didn't say a word the entire time.

*

After they married, they continued to live in a marriage in name only. They were compatible in bed, but otherwise barely spoke at all.

When the time was right, they chose to divorce.

She spoke sweet promises, while squeezing every last bit of value out of him.

By then, she had already reached the top, standing on her father's bones.

[*] The female lead is not a virgin; the male lead is.

[*] The male lead changes, and the second male lead becomes the main lead.

-- Upcoming: False Devotion

The first time Jiang Jin saw Xie Rongyu was at a dimly lit club. In a room full of clamor, he alone sat quietly with his eyes lowered, savoring tea, completely out of place, with a cold, solitary air about him.

She knew his family was on the verge of bankruptcy and his mother was gravely ill with no hope of recovery.

She walked over and sat beside him. "Is there anything I can do to help you?"

Jiang Jin's solution was to hand him a marriage contract.

"I'll help you rebuild your life, and I'll divorce you when the time is right. Sign this agreement, and a brilliant future will be yours for the taking."

Golden light caught Xie Rongyu's eyelashes, giving him a saintly air. "Why are you helping me?"

Jiang Jin gazed steadily at his features and did not answer.

*

The upper circles of Licheng all said that Miss Jiang had truly gone crazy. She had spent a fortune buying a wolf in human clothing, who would surely repay her kindness by biting her hard one day!

Only Jiang Jin didn't care.

She loved his features, loved seeing him in a white shirt and black trousers, and loved the woody scent of his cologne.

On the day they divorced, Xie Rongyu had already rebuilt his life. He wore a black shirt, and the scent about him was no longer the soft, woody fragrance.

Looking at his outfit, Jiang Jin frowned slightly and spoke gently. "That doesn't look good on you."

Xie Rongyu gripped her wrist and asked coldly, "Because I don't look like him dressed this way, is that it?"

Theme: Marriage should be built on equality and mutual trust