[Marriage First, Love Later / The Ex-Wife-Chasing Crematorium / Romantic Rivalry / Happy Ending / Female Growth]
Cold on the outside, crazed within, hollow-hearted CEO x gloomy beauty of a musician, starved for love and painfully submissive
Being devoted to just one person doesn't count as loving deeply.
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If you had a bottle of potion that made whoever drank it obey your every word and love you alone for the rest of their life, would you use it? Who would you use it on?
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Jiang Jiu is an overlooked adopted daughter of the fabulously wealthy Jiang family. Gloomy by nature, she doesn't fit in with high society.
Pei Yuan is the CEO of a prestigious old-money family’s corporation, carefully groomed to be decisive and swift in action.
When her adopted older sister runs away from her wedding, Jiang Jiu ends up marrying into the Pei family by a twist of fate.
She carries a secret mission: the Jiang family needs an investment from the Pei family to rescue its business empire, which is powerful in appearance but hollow within. Before the Jiang family goes bankrupt, she must get as much as she can from the Peis.
But her own goal is simple:
She wants Pei Yuan to love her and his family to like her.
That way, even if the truth comes out, she might still be spared.
Yet things don't seem to be going the way she expected.
After repeated failed attempts to test the waters, she vaguely understands:
Pei Yuan likes girls like her adopted sister, bright and confident.
He could never love her.
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She opened the bottle of true love potion.
Much later, when the man confessed his love to her with red-rimmed eyes,
she thought expressionlessly:
Ah, so this is what the true love potion does. It works better than all her clumsy schemes combined.
She firmly believes that without this potion, no one would love her.
Reader's Guide:
1. The male lead is Pei Yuan. One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending.
2. The heroine is a gloomy beauty who is painfully submissive and starved for love. She doesn't know she's beautiful and often skulks about in the shadows. At first she's insecure and timid, but she'll gradually grow. She has plenty of flaws and shortcomings, but will overcome them one by one with help from others and through her own efforts.
3. Everyone gets hurt equally. If you can't handle the heroine or hero suffering, please step away.
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2025.6.23
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Coming soon:
Next up: The Only One Who Didn't Reborn at the Academy for Nobles
Everyone except the heroine is reborn!
Every male lead starts out with maximum affection for her. It's The Truman Show, noble academy edition.
The whole school is livestreamed as they bet on the sincere heart of a commoner.
One day, the heroine discovers that everyone who used to hate and bully her has had a complete change of heart. They'd do anything for her, even die for her.
Perhaps they're all insane.
Theme: Love yourself before you love others
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