A Wolf's Ambition, a Kite's Arrogance [Marriage Before Love]

The novel Strongly “Taking” My Iceberg Male Assistant, My Mortal Enemy Is Now Open! [Powerful, wolf-like female lead VS silly, clueless, cat-like male lead] [International Trade CEO X pure-hearted mixed-race male entertainer] Both virgins | Goofy comedy | Female lead forces herself on male lead | Plenty of female-gaze descriptions Jiang Xiulin, a nobody of an actor who had just been dropped by his agency, was told by his father that the company was in crisis and the family was about to go bankrupt. To save them, he needed to enter a marriage alliance. Jiang Xiulin patted his chest and thought, Thank goodness. They only almost went bankrupt. All I have to do is marry someone for the alliance Wait! A marriage alliance?! Him?!! How could such a ridiculous plot point straight out of a romance novel actually happen to him? Seeing the disbelief in his son's eyes, Jiang's father calmly took a sip of tea. “I raised you for all these years. Now it's time to get a little return on my investment.” Jiang Xiulin: “...” For the sake of the family business his father cherished so much, Jiang Xiulin went to the meeting with tears in his eyes. He had expected the other party to be a greasy, middle-aged woman with blunt bangs. He'd even pictured a fifty-year-old rich divorcee from Anyan City, married and divorced eight times. But the person sitting across from him was a cool, handsome, impeccably dressed female CEO? And not just any CEO, either. She was a rising star in international trade, a famous single beauty and powerbroker in the business world: Wan Ci, someone countless entertainers dreamed of currying favor with! Wan Ci handed him a contract and said in a low voice, “Marry me. I'll make sure your family is fine, and you can keep working as an entertainer. After the wedding, we'll stay out of each other's business.” And so their contract marriage began. (Just married) Jiang Xiulin: She saved my family. I should be grateful, but this is a contract marriage, so we need to keep our distance. (Two months married) Watching Wan Ci knock two burly men flying with one punch, Jiang Xiulin shakily picked up his phone and searched: 108 Ways for a Proper Lover to Please Their Sugar Daddy... Everyone in high society knew that Wan Ci was a woman of ruthless tactics, cold-blooded and merciless, with eyes only for power and fame. A male star who rushed to flatter her had his face slapped swollen on the spot. When the head of a North American plutocratic family declared his love for her, she blew up his estate without batting an eye. Jiang Xiulin naively thought he was the exception, so he couldn't help confessing his feelings. Instead, divorce papers arrived out of nowhere. Wan Ci pinched his chin, still looking down at him from her lofty perch. “I clearly warned you not to cross the line. You're not worthy of catching my eye.” One day, years later, Chairman Wan, now head of a trillion-yuan business empire, was photographed in an upscale clothing store with her arm around an unidentified man as she paid for his clothes. He clutched the clothes and grinned from ear to ear. The gossip spread quickly and shot to the top of the trending topics. The next day, Jiang Xiulin, who had entered a film set for a closed-door shoot half a month earlier, furiously posted a photo of his marriage certificate and responded: “Whoever started the rumor that my wife has 28 pretty-boy lovers, come out and look carefully. I'm the one and only official husband!!” In private, though, he hugged his phone and complained to Wan Ci in a pitiful voice: “Dear wife~ It was me who went to the clothing store with you, but the news made me out to be some no-name pretty boy! How do those paparazzi survive when they're so bad at taking photos...” Wan Ci fell silent for a moment, then liked Jiang Xiulin's post and commented with a photo of the two of them on the day they graduated from junior high. In the camera, the young boy and girl looked shy and reserved. Wan Ci, with her mismatched eyes, had a cool, resolute expression, while the blue-eyed mixed-race boy smiled happily, looking down at the girl beside him as he bashfully made a peace sign. Together, they looked like a perfect match. Chairman Wan: [He's not a pretty boy. He's my junior high school classmate and husband.] That day, social media servers crashed again and again. Fans and passersby alike were stunned: A romance that began as top-tier star meets wealthy, beautiful CEO? I'm shipping this couple first! [Please Read] * The female lead is 28 at the start, and the male lead is 26. Both are virgins. This is not gender-bender fiction. * No pregnancy or childbirth plot for the female lead. * Includes an amnesia trope and a little forced intimacy (female lead forces male lead). The plot may be melodramatic. No characters are based on real people. * The female lead is 175 cm tall and the male lead is 191 cm tall. This is not a role-reversal romance. * Includes one male-male side couple. They have no romantic entanglements whatsoever with either lead. Literally, neither of the side characters in that couple gets involved romantically with the female or male lead. There is no side character secretly loving or coveting either lead. The side couple is only there to move the plot forward, takes up less than 5% of the story, and appears later on. Their presence is noted in the chapter titles and summaries, so please don't read if this bothers you. * I do not accept advice on how to write, suggestions about wording or invented terms, or attempts to sell me on them. 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