The Contract Wife
By @john1208
In the labyrinthine concrete jungle of modern-day New York City, Lina Hart, a fiercely independent and sharp-witted single mother, navigates the harsh realities of life from her gritty Brooklyn walkup. Desperate to protect her daughter, she's forced into a one-year marriage contract with a cold-hearted CEO who needs a wife to secure his vast inheritance. Lina, however, possesses an uncanny ability to read people's true emotions through their micro-expressions, making her impossible to deceive. While she expertly hides her own vulnerability behind a sarcastic wit, her unique cheat becomes a formidable weapon in understanding the man who claims to be emotionless. What begins as a calculated business deal, designed to be devoid of genuine feeling, slowly unravels as forbidden emotions ignite between two people who swore they would never fall in love again. Amidst the glittering penthouses and the high-stakes corporate world, Lina must decide if she can risk her heart, and her daughter's future, on a love born from a contract.
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The Billionaire's Accidental Sweetheart
By @Admin
The night before her wedding, fashion designer Natalie catches her fiancé in bed with her own half-sister. Heartbroken, she runs into the rain and collides with a mysterious, dangerous man radiating money and power - Julian Vance, the ruthless billionaire who secretly owns the largest real-estate empire in the country. He sweeps her into a flash marriage: he needs a wife to fend off his family, she needs a shield to strike back at the people who betrayed her. But behind Julian's ice-cold exterior is a man who is unbelievably gentle, possessive and protective of her alone - because ten years ago, a little girl saved his life, and he has been searching for her ever since. From a discarded bride to the most pampered woman in the city, Natalie will face-slap every person who wronged her, melt her ice-king husband, and discover that their 'accidental' marriage was destiny all along.
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The CEO's Chibi Shadow Artist
By @john1208
Pei Yichen, CEO of Celestial Tech, is a man forged from ice and ambition, his empire built on unyielding logic. To unlock a crucial inheritance and fund his groundbreaking 'Everbloom City' project, he needs a wife - one who embodies specific, almost archaic virtues. Enter Mu Xinyue, a quiet, unassuming freelance artist burdened by family debt, who accepts his cold, year-long contract marriage. She's just a means to an end for him, a blank canvas to fit his predefined criteria. But Xinyue harbors a dazzling secret: she is 'Moon Whisperer,' the anonymous digital artist whose visionary, nature-infused designs are secretly revered in the industry - and coincidentally, exactly what Celestial Tech desperately needs for Everbloom City's faltering aesthetics. As they navigate their bizarre cohabitation in his opulent penthouse, Yichen finds himself inexplicably drawn to his seemingly ordinary contract wife, while fiercely pursuing the elusive 'Moon Whisperer' he believes holds the key to his professional triumph. Will his icy heart thaw before he discovers his greatest asset, and perhaps his true love, has been right beside him all along, hidden in plain sight?
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The Chibi CEO's Silent Symphony
By @john1208
Gu Chenzhou, the notoriously cold and calculating CEO of Harmonic Innovations Group, needs a temporary wife to secure a critical merger. His choice falls on Lin Wei, a struggling but fiercely independent music box artisan burdened by her family's crushing debts. Their contract is clear: a marriage of convenience, devoid of emotion, confined to his lavish Shanghai penthouse. Lin Wei, desperate, agrees, unaware that her unique gift for restoring intricate antique music boxes holds a profound, unspoken connection to Gu Chenzhou's own guarded past - a childhood trauma he keeps meticulously hidden. As they navigate the icy formalities of their arranged life, sparks of unexpected tension and a grudging respect begin to flicker between them. Lin Wei finds herself drawn to the fragile melancholy beneath Gu Chenzhou's stoic facade, while he is increasingly captivated by her quiet strength and the soulful melodies she coaxes from broken mechanisms. But their delicate facade is threatened when Su Mochen, the charming CEO of rival Melody Dynamics Corp., publicly unveils a groundbreaking music box created by Lin Wei years ago, unknowingly exposing a part of her hidden identity that could shatter both their contract and Gu Chenzhou’s carefully constructed world.
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The Billionaire Sinful Pact
By @Lucy
Elara Vance, a renowned art conservator with a crushing debt, is cornered. Her family's legacy teeters on the brink, threatened by a predatory corporation. Her only escape: a Faustian bargain with Alexander Sterling, a cold, enigmatic billionaire known for his ruthless deals and impenetrable facade. He offers to erase her debt, but at a price that demands her complete subservience for one year, blurring the lines between ownership and desire. Elara, driven by a deep-seated fear of failure and the ghost of her father's financial ruin, enters his gilded cage. Can she maintain her independence and guard her heart against a man who seems to own everything, including her desperate hope, or will she become just another one of his meticulously acquired possessions?
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Queen of my heart
By @Ferron 😎😎😎
In the opulent, treacherous world of Italy's mafia elite, Alessandro Moretti, a ruthless and cold genius, is forced into a contract marriage with a woman he barely knows. His reputation as a hot-headed, mysterious leader conceals a profound emptiness - a core wound from a past betrayal that makes him believe true connection is a weakness. His new wife, however, slowly chips away at his icy facade, revealing glimpses of the 'puppy' he could be. As rivals within the 'Ndrangheta seek to exploit any perceived vulnerability, Alessandro must learn to trust, or risk losing not only his empire but the blossoming affection that could finally heal his heart. The stakes escalate when their union inadvertently uncovers a conspiracy threatening to shatter the delicate balance of power across all Five Families.
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By @张宇
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The CEO's Chibi Contract Bride
By @john1208
Lu Jianfeng, the iron-fisted chairman of Skyline Conglomerate, is a corporate predator on the verge of acquiring Starlight Innovations, a struggling tech company. He’s cold, arrogant, and utterly ruthless, with no patience for incompetence. Enter Shen Yufei, a seemingly ordinary young woman with a knack for getting into cute, clumsy predicaments. She's just been hired as his personal assistant, thanks to an obscure family connection. What Jianfeng doesn't know is that Yufei is actually the *secret heiress* of Starlight Innovations, forced into a clandestine contract marriage with him to protect her ailing grandfather and her family’s legacy. Underneath her innocent facade, Yufei is a sharp strategist, infiltrating Skyline Conglomerate to uncover Jianfeng’s weaknesses and save her family’s company from within. Their days are a battle of wills: his domineering commands clashing with her clever defiance, sparking an undeniable, fiery chemistry. But as corporate rivalries intensify and old family secrets resurface, the line between love and strategic deception blurs. Can Yufei protect her identity and her heart, or will the formidable chairman discover his cute, clumsy assistant is actually his wife… and his most dangerous opponent?
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Unfair
By @di mna
In an era of steam and nascent magical engineering, Christian, a master of arcane machinery, exists in the shadow of his noble heritage, his cold demeanor a shield against a profound sense of unworthiness. The world, a fantastical echo of the 20th century, is ruled by opulent, magic-wielding families, leaving commoners yearning for scraps of power and knowledge. Christian's genius for intricate magical devices is both his greatest asset and a constant reminder of the expectations he struggles to meet. His life takes an unforeseen turn with a politically charged contract marriage, a union meant to solidify alliances but instead plunges him into a maelstrom of misunderstandings and unrequited desires. Can his skill in mending shattered artifacts extend to repairing a broken heart, or will his own remain forever cold and untouched?
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A Dangerous Arrangement
By @Alvidaa
Hunter Knox, the formidable and ruthless boss of the Knox Empire, orchestrates a strategic contract marriage with an unassuming woman. He believes her to be ordinary, clumsy, and feisty, a mere pawn in his intricate game. Unbeknownst to him, his bride is 'May,' the runaway princess of the notorious Voss Mafia, meticulously hiding her true identity and lineage behind a masterfully crafted disguise. Betrayed by the rival Moretti family, the Voss empire is on the precipice of reclaiming its power. Just as an underworld war ignites, May's true status is revealed, forcing her to shed her elaborate facade of blonde wig, contact lenses, and fake freckles. Now, as her real face emerges, the dangerous arrangement between them shifts, transforming into a volatile mix of attraction, betrayal, and burgeoning conflict within the dark heart of high society and the criminal underworld.
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Unfair
By @di mna
In the 'Era of Magical Machines,' where steam-powered wonders meet nascent magical engineering, Christian, a cold and exceptionally skilled magical engineer, finds his quiet world upended. Though he can repair the most intricate magical devices, he's unable to mend the growing chasm between him and the enigmatic heir from a ruling family who suddenly demands his expertise - and perhaps more. Born into a divided society where wealth dictates power, Christian grapples with a one-sided love he can't vocalize and a contract that binds him to the very person he adores yet distrusts. As he delves deeper into the lavish, gothic world of the elite, he uncovers not just the secrets of advanced magical tech, but the painful truths of his own heart, caught in a web of misunderstandings and a love he fears is utterly, unfairly, unrequited. His journey will force him to confront the vulnerability he so fiercely guards.
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Ink & Ice: The CEO's Artistic Contract
By @john1208
Huo Mingxuan, the notoriously cold CEO of Zenith Holdings, faces an ultimatum: marry a woman who embodies traditional Chinese artistry or forfeit his inheritance and control of his empire to his conniving cousin. Desperate, he orchestrates a contract marriage with Lu Jingyi, a talented but struggling freelance calligrapher burdened by her family's crushing debt. He needs her artistic brilliance to charm his formidable, art-obsessed grandmother, who holds the key to his family's legacy. Jingyi, seeing no other escape, agrees to pretend to be the sophisticated, cultured wife Mingxuan demands, moving into his opulent penthouse. Under the glare of high society, Jingyi must perform not just as a wife, but as an artistic prodigy, her heart aching as her sacred passion becomes a commodity. Mingxuan, driven by a hidden wound concerning his own artistic past, observes her with a detached intensity that slowly gives way to grudging admiration. But as their carefully constructed façade threatens to crumble under the scrutiny of Mingxuan's jealous ex-fiancée and a rival corporation seeking to exploit any weakness, Jingyi discovers a deeper, more personal reason behind Mingxuan's desperate quest for an "artistic bride," making her question everything. Is her art truly a performance, or is she awakening a dormant part of the ruthless CEO's soul, just as her own fragile heart begins to yield to his unexpected tenderness?
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The Chibi CEO's Secret Wife
By @john1208
CEO Gu Chenzhou, known for his icy demeanor and the ruthless expansion of the Gu Group's tech empire, needs a temporary wife to secure a crucial legacy project. Lin Wei, a struggling animator with a vibrant imagination, accidentally captures his attention when she's trying to save her family's traditional puppet theater from demolition by his company. He sees a unique "chibi" spark in her work, a creative energy he needs to counter a competitor's AI-driven marketing campaign. Their contract: she pretends to be his devoted wife, and he saves her theater. But Gu Chenzhou is a man of logic, not emotion, and Lin Wei finds herself navigating opulent penthouses and ruthless boardrooms, all while his domineering gaze, softened only by his chibi design, starts to stir something unexpected within her. As the line between pretense and reality blurs, a rival CEO, Su Mochen, emerges, not just for business, but for Lin Wei's heart, threatening to expose their charade and dismantle everything they've built.
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My CEO Is a Girly Girl
By @Marcelino Romero
Su Xian, a carefree young man, awakens in a parallel urban China as a stunning 20-year-old woman, bewilderingly named Su Xian. With her past self's memories hazy and a new body she barely understands, her once logical mind is now an airhead, lacking common sense but possessing an undeniable charm. Thrown into this bewildering new existence, she's promptly entangled in a contract marriage with Lin Wei, a notoriously domineering, 23-year-old CEO. He's handsome, powerful, and utterly unaware of his 'wife's' secret. Su Xian must navigate high society, maintain her feminine disguise, and survive a marriage built on a lie, all while her very identity hangs in the balance. Can she keep her secret, or will her male past self resurface at the most inconvenient times?
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Threads of Our Undoing
By @mori
In the gilded, high-stakes world of the Neo-Victorian elite, Clara Vance is a master of illusion. Born into poverty but blessed with the unique kinetic ability to manipulate fabrics and threads, she weaves masterpieces that disguise the darkest secrets of the nobility. Yet, her most dangerous design is her own identity. When the ruthless Duke of Sterling, Julian Vance, uncovers her deception, he doesn't expose her - he forces her into a contract marriage to legitimize his claim to the throne. Surrounded by enemies and bound to a man who represents everything she fears, Clara must play the dutiful duchess. But Julian hides a devastating secret of his own, and as their forced proximity ignites a volatile, forbidden passion, the thread holding Clara's lies together begins to unravel. In a court where love is a weakness and trust is a death sentence, Clara must decide if her survival is worth losing her heart.
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Transmigrated to 70s
By @Banashree Hazarika
In the vibrant 1970s, amidst the afterglow of a peaceful era, Ye Xiaolian, a modern woman, finds herself transmigrated into the body of a demure country girl. Her new reality: an arranged 'contract marriage' to a man she's never met, a family struggling to make ends meet, and a looming sense of displacement. Armed with knowledge from her past life and an innate gentleness, she must navigate the unfamiliar customs and expectations of rural China. Her only cheat is her subtle understanding of modern conveniences, which she cautiously introduces to improve her new family's life. But beneath the calm surface, an unacknowledged fear of true commitment drives her, threatening to sabotage the genuine affection that slowly blossoms. Can she build a real home and find love, or will her guarded heart leave her forever an outsider in this idyllic yet challenging time?
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The Touch of a Tyrant
By @john1208
Getting publicly drenched in vintage Merlot by my aristocratic ex-fiancé at the season's biggest gala wasn't on my itinerary. Neither was being rescued by my new boss, Rydel Kastner. Rydel is a ruthless architectural tycoon, a severe germaphobe who wears silk gloves, and my absolute worst rival. But he has a proposition: a one-year marriage contract to swat away the relentless gold-digging exes his family keeps throwing at him to steal his wealth. I need his resources for my own cold-blooded revenge against the men who ruined my family, so I sign. Living in his sterile penthouse, the lines blur. I discover my piano playing is the only thing that quiets his severe trauma-induced night terrors, and strangely, I am the only person whose touch doesn't make him flinch. He's intensely jealous, and his iron-clad contract rules dissolve the moment another man looks at me. But I have a secret: I am the anonymous whistleblower systematically dismantling the elite syndicate. When Rydel catches me crying over our contract's expiration date, his control finally snaps. But what happens when the tyrant realizes my secret revenge mission is the exact same conspiracy he's been hunting his entire life?
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My CEO's Accidental Wife
By @Marcelino Romero
Su Xian, a twenty-year-old, finds her ordinary urban life irrevocably altered when she transmigrates into the body of a stunningly beautiful, albeit airheaded and rather silly, young woman in a parallel modern China. Retaining her name but inheriting a vastly different demeanor, she's thrust into a world where her common sense is comically inadequate. Her new reality spirals further into chaos when she's unexpectedly bound by a contract marriage to Lin Wei, a notoriously domineering, devastatingly handsome, and intensely private CEO, three years her senior. As Su Xian navigates boardroom drama and high society mishaps, she must learn to masquerade as the perfect wife while secretly trying to understand her new identity and the true meaning of love amidst a slow-burn romance with comedic undertones and escalating drama.
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Contractually Your
By @Alys
Solène Montecillo, a spirited young woman, is trapped in a gilded cage of family expectations, facing a future of arranged marriages. Desperate to reclaim her autonomy, she strikes an audacious deal with a charming, equally cornered bachelor: a marriage of convenience. Their agreement is simple: act as the perfect, adoring couple in public, convincing their meddling families and friends that true love blossomed. Behind closed doors, their separate lives resume, their only connection the iron-clad contract. But as their elaborate charade deepens, shared glances linger too long, forced touches feel too real, and the boundaries between performance and genuine affection begin to blur. Solène, who vowed never to surrender her heart to another's will, finds herself entangled in a different kind of trap - one woven from unspoken desires and a growing connection that threatens to unravel their carefully constructed lie and expose their most vulnerable truths. What started as an escape now risks becoming the most dangerous commitment of all.
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The secret of a Martyr
By @Army Bangtan
Michael Reese, a man burdened by brilliance and an inability to voice his deepest emotions, unknowingly condemns the woman he loves to a life of quiet suffering. Convinced he’s protecting his wife from the dangerous currents of his business empire and the shadows of his family, he maintains an icy distance, denying their bond and prioritizing everything else above her. His mind, sharp enough to instantly unearth any truth, remains tragically blind to the devastating impact of his own emotional repression. She endures his indifference, becoming a martyr in their silent battle. As the web of secrets tightens and his enemies draw closer, Michael must confront the shattering reality that his misguided protection isn't saving her, but slowly destroying her - and their love. Can he break through his self-imposed emotional prison before his silent devotion costs him everything?
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The Insomniac's Fake Bride
By @john1208
The story opens at a lavish engagement gala in the glittering city of Vespari. Zesara Fane, a shamelessly cheeky executive concierge, flashes a brilliant, fake smile beside her boss, the notoriously cold CEO Orenzo Vettori. To the world, it is a whirlwind romance. In reality, it is a strict contract: Orenzo provides the marital stability Zesara needs to win custody of her little brother, Timo, while she keeps Orenzo's overbearing family at bay. There is just one unwritten complication - Orenzo suffers from severe insomnia and can only drift off when Zesara is sleeping beside him. As shared beds lead to accidental intimacy, like zipping up dresses and sleepy embraces, a bittersweet, unspoken love blooms between them. Told in alternating third-person perspectives between Zesara and Orenzo, the stakes rise when Zesara uses her secret fluency in the obscure Qalaran language to save a vital international merger. Her triumph threatens a trusted corporate mentor who is secretly orchestrating their downfall from the shadows. When a sudden paparazzi ambush forces Orenzo to break his own rules with a fierce, jealous kiss, will their fragile love survive the sabotage, or will hidden enemies tear their newfound family apart?
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My Chibi CEO's Contracted Heart
By @john1208
Lin Wei, a talented but struggling illustrator burdened by her family's crushing debt, finds her life irrevocably altered when she's coerced into a contract marriage with Gu Chenzhou, the notoriously cold and powerful CEO of Gu Industries. He needs a temporary wife to fulfill a clause in his grandfather's will and secure a crucial inheritance, while she needs an impossible sum to save her ailing father. Trapped in a lavish penthouse that feels more like a gilded cage, Lin Wei navigates the icy indifference of her "husband" and the suffocating expectations of high society. But Gu Chenzhou, despite his formidable exterior, is haunted by a past tragedy, and Lin Wei holds a dangerous secret: she's the anonymous creator of "Tiny Titans," a viral webcomic that mercilessly parodies Shanghai's elite, with Gu Chenzhou as her most frequent, and unflattering, muse. As their lives intertwine, sparks fly amidst the tension, and a formidable rival, Su Mochen, begins to take a keen interest in both Lin Wei and her hidden identity. Can their contract survive the truth, or will their carefully constructed world shatter, exposing fragile hearts beneath chibi exteriors?
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A Vow Woven in Rain
By @john1208
I fell asleep in my cramped basement apartment and woke up in a silk bridal gown inside a locked penthouse suite. A note from my glamorous, ruthless twin sister explained the impossible: she had drugged me, swapped our places, and fled her arranged marriage to the most feared CEO in Mirel. Now, to protect my sister and appease his dying grandmother, I must pretend to be the confident executive he contracted to marry. Living with Keston Varr is a terrifying ordeal of forced proximity. He is cold, exacting, and enforces a strict contract of emotional distance. Yet, the boundaries begin to blur during the heavy coastal storms, when the untouchable billionaire seeks out my touch, trembling and terrified of the thunder. I soothe his fears, and my hidden fluency in forgotten dialects ends up saving his international merger. But when my violently abusive family finally tracks me down to extort the 'new bride,' Keston's icy composure shatters. He breaks every rule in our contract, going absolutely feral to protect me. What will happen when he discovers I'm the wrong sister - or worse, what if he knew all along?
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Symptoms of a Sweet Vow
By @john1208
Dr. Senna Caris is a brilliant medical botanist who prefers napping in the company greenhouse over climbing the corporate ladder. Her peaceful, lazy days are shattered when a mysterious delivery arrives at her desk: a limited-edition 'Puff-Griffin' plushie clutching a contract. Her icy, ruthless boss, Kiran Reyker, needs a fake wife to fend off a relentless swarm of gold-digging exes. In exchange, he will fund the world-class care Senna’s little brother desperately needs. She reluctantly agrees, using her hidden medical talents to secretly treat Kiran’s debilitating, agonizing nerve condition. Cohabitation reveals a softer side to the terrifying CEO - namely, his massive, closely guarded collection of adorable plushies. As Senna's unorthodox treatments soothe his pain, Kiran's cold boundaries melt into a fierce, irrational jealousy whenever other men approach his 'fake' wife. When a sudden paparazzi ambush forces Kiran to protect her with a real, desperate kiss, all the rules are broken. But neither realizes the old notary filed a specific regional contract with a hidden time limit: in exactly ninety days, all annulment clauses vanish, and the marriage becomes irrevocably permanent. Will Kiran let her walk away, or will the plushie-loving boss finally admit his heart is entirely hers?
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A Hunger So Vicious
By @john1208
Opening in a dimly lit, rain-lashed office, Saskia Radic strikes a devil’s bargain. To rip custody of her little brother from her sadistic uncle, she agrees to a three-year contract marriage with her terrifying employer, Kazimir Ozerov. Kazimir is a ruthless billionaire who hasn't slept or eaten a full meal in years, paralyzed by the trauma of a past betrayal. But Saskia is utterly shameless, and her exceptional culinary skills become the only thing that can coax the beast to eat and rest. Their arrangement has strict boundaries, until Ostrom's violent thunderstorms reduce the cold boss to a trembling mess who demands her presence in his bed. As accidental touches - zipping a dress, sharing a blanket - turn into suffocating tension, Kazimir's indifference fractures into a fierce, irrational jealousy. Meanwhile, a deadly string of syndicate poisonings sweeps the city. When a sudden, brutal fever brings Saskia to the brink of death, Kazimir panics, breaking his own ironclad rules to save her. But his frantic realization of his feelings uncovers a horrifying twist: the custody battle and the shadowy assassin hunting Kazimir are orchestrated by the exact same mastermind. Can Saskia survive the man she was unknowingly sent to destroy?
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A Vow of Pristine Deception
By @john1208
Junia Bresson’s ordinary morning was supposed to end with feeding her geriatric rescue pug, Barnaby, and quietly manning the front desk of Rohe Industries. Instead, a spilled latte and a horrific case of mistaken identity result in her being violently zipped into a couture wedding gown and shoved down the aisle to marry her terrifying, touch-averse boss, Thayer Rohe. The goal? To merge two rival luxury doomsday bunker corporations. Thayer immediately recognizes his tragically polite receptionist beneath the veil, but desperate to bypass a strict morality clause, he binds her to a one-year fake marriage. Told in alternating perspectives, their farcical arrangement takes a sharp turn when Junia's boundless, apologetic empathy accidentally guilt-trips a rival board of directors into signing a doomed, massive deal. Thayer, a tyrant who sanitizes his own pens, is stunned to realize Junia's skin is the only thing that doesn’t trigger his severe aversions. Yet a bittersweet divide remains: Junia believes he only tolerates her for the merger, while Thayer is convinced she merely pities his sterilized existence. As the contract dwindles and Junia reluctantly accepts a blind date, will Thayer finally shatter his own pristine rules out of raw, irrational jealousy?
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Bulletproof Nuptials
By @john1208
The story opens at the blood-soaked deathbed of Vahri's mentor, where she swears to protect little Pava from the megacorps hunting the child's rare genetics. Desperate for legal immunity and custody, Vahri crashes the heavily armed office of Zannet, a terrifying, chronically sleepless bio-tech CEO. She offers her skills as a rogue doctor in exchange for a contract marriage. Zannet immediately agrees, but only because Vahri's unique bio-signature miraculously cures his crippling insomnia. Told in alternating third-person perspectives between the oblivious medic and the exhausted boss, the arrangement spirals into chaos. Vahri completely misunderstands the rules. She assumes "exclusive partnership" means she must act as his personal saboteur. While Zannet just wants her to share a bed so he can finally sleep, a cheeky Vahri is out hijacking convoys and zipping up tactical dresses to infiltrate galas. The explosive, strictly non-romantic tension peaks during a high-speed train heist. When a handsome rival CEO openly flirts with Vahri, Zannet breaks his own non-interference protocol, crashing a gunship into the train out of fierce, irrational jealousy. As explosions rock the city, Vahri must figure out: is her boss trying to kill her for breach of contract, or is he just dangerously possessive?
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Contractually Yours
By @Alys
Elara Vance, a brilliant but emotionally guarded architect, believes in contracts over commitment. Her meticulously crafted life, built on professional success and emotional distance, crumbles when a bizarre legal clause from her late grandfather’s will forces her into a marriage of convenience with Kaelen Thorne, the ruthless, enigmatic CEO of a rival firm. This isn't just about inheritance; ancient family pacts whisper of a curse that binds two houses, making this contract far more perilous than a simple business deal. Elara must now navigate a tempestuous cohabitation, battling Kaelen's relentless charm and her own deeply ingrained fear of vulnerability. Can she protect her heart when every clause of their agreement demands a surrender she's sworn never to give, or will their forged bond ignite a passion that defies all logic and breaks the curse?
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The Honeypot Husband
By @john1208
I hate my boss, Bramson Klerk. The man is a walking spreadsheet with the emotional depth of a puddle, and we’ve spent three years screaming at each other over server budgets. So when a courier hands me a live, snapping Venus flytrap with a diamond ring and a marriage contract attached to its teeth, I assume it’s a threat. Instead, my terrifying rival needs a wife to unlock a multibillion-dollar inheritance left by his eccentric father. The rules? Live together, pretend to be in love, and absolutely no catching feelings. I only sign because I want a cut of the cash to fund my own tech startup. But moving into Bramson's glass penthouse reveals two massive problems. One, the inheritance isn't a gift; it's a digital honeypot designed to trigger a hostile takeover, forcing me to use my secret hacking skills to dismantle his own family's trap. Two, my icy boss hasn't slept a full night in years - unless I'm sitting right next to him. As accidental naps turn into sharing a bed, his cold boundaries melt into a fierce, suffocating jealousy. But when he catches me crying over our contract's expiration date, will he let me go, or burn down his own empire to keep me?
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The Velvet Charade
By @john1208
Sprinting through the subterranean smuggling tunnels of Velmora with enforcers hot on her heels, a quietly ruthless couture prodigy makes a desperate play for survival: she drags a dying socialite from a crashed limousine and steals her identity. Assuming the name of a high-society darling, she is quickly thrust into a lucrative contract marriage with Dario Ferrand, a terrifyingly cold fashion mogul who desperately needs a wife to unlock his grandfather's iron-clad will. It is the perfect cover. Hidden inside Dario’s fortress-like estate, she uses her brilliant, unrecognized talent to secretly salvage his failing fashion line while plotting her revenge against the syndicate hunting her. As they are forced into close proximity, Dario's icy demeanor begins to crack. From the electric tension of him zipping up her experimental dresses to the nights she must hold him when thunderstorms trigger his paralyzing phobia, his indifference is replaced by a fierce, irrational jealousy. But when she collapses from a severe fever and a frantic Dario breaks every contract rule to save her, the ultimate twist drops: he knows she isn't the real socialite. Because Dario is an imposter too - the very street-thief she loved a decade ago, who stole the real heir's identity to build this empire for her. Will they survive the enemies closing in, or will their empire of lies collapse first?
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Vow of the Spider
By @john1208
The deal is struck in a sterile boardroom: Ineska Vondra will marry her terrifying employer, Kazimir Zima, to act as a permanent shield against his endless swarm of gold-digging exes. Too proud to admit she needs the security clearance, Ineska accepts. Confined to his brutalist penthouse, their forced proximity breeds a suffocating, dark tension. Mundane acts of survival - zipping her dress for a hostile gala, hiding in the same bed during a drone sweep - fuel Kazimir’s possessive paranoia. When Ineska uses her polyglot talents to single-handedly save the doomed Oltak Merger, a handsome rival CEO openly flirts with her, prompting Kazimir to shatter his own contract rules in a fit of vicious, irrational jealousy. But romance is entirely absent from this gilded cage; Kazimir views her as a prized asset, not a lover. The true horror awakens when Ineska investigates Kazimir’s bizarre, heavily guarded collection of cute, wide-eyed plushies. Sewn inside one is a cryptic ledger written in a dead dialect only she speaks. The chilling truth? Her pre-amnesia self engineered the exes, the rival, and the merger crisis to infiltrate Kazimir’s life. With a double agent in their midst, can Ineska finish a lethal mission she doesn't remember starting?
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Cage of White Keys
By @john1208
I never wanted to be a prodigy. My life plan was incredibly simple: exert zero effort, play piano at a dingy underground lounge, and keep my little brother, Yurek, off the radar of the men who orphaned us. But when a brutal alleyway chase leaves us cornered in the freezing rain, I am forced to make a deal with the devil. Kazimir Ozerov is the cold-blooded director of Voskgrad's most feared intelligence network. He offers absolute protection. The price? A contract marriage and my employment as his personal archivist. Kazimir harbors a crippling phobia of fire and a lethal case of insomnia, and my music is the only thing that soothes his fractured mind. I thought I could coast through this arrangement, doing the bare minimum while secretly plotting an escape. But when a rival faction's paparazzi ambush forces a desperate, bruising kiss for the cameras, Kazimir’s cold facade shatters. His territorial jealousy awakens, turning my sanctuary into a gilded cage. As I decrypt his files, I realize the arsonist who traumatized him and the men hunting my brother are part of the exact same conspiracy. Can I unravel the truth before my fake husband’s dark obsession consumes us both?
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A Colder Kind of Vow
By @john1208
Every morning at eight, Linnea Rostova pours Stellan's coffee. She knows his brutal boardroom glare and his absolute rule against personal attachments. But when an ordinary Tuesday is derailed by a stray terrier breaking into the building and a lobby swarming with scandal-seeking, gold-digging exes, Stellan makes a desperate move to save his stock price: he puts a ring on his assistant's finger. It is purely transactional. Yet, confined to his rain-lashed penthouse, the boundaries blur. Through alternating perspectives, we see Linnea discovering the cracks in his ice - especially during thunderstorms, when the terrifying CEO is paralyzed by childhood trauma and clings to her for comfort. Meanwhile, a second drama unfolds: Stellan is hunting 'The Peregrine', an anonymous, legendary mediator needed to salvage a doomed corporate merger. He has no idea his introverted fake wife is the mastermind he is searching for. As Stellan’s fierce, irrational jealousy flares whenever rival executives approach her, the contract frays. But when Linnea catches a severe fever and collapses, Stellan's cold logic shatters entirely. Will he realize his empire means nothing without her before the revelation of her secret identity destroys their fragile trust?
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Contractually Your
By @Alys
Princess Solène Montecillo, ever-radiant, carries the burden of a kingdom's expectations. Relentlessly pursued by powerful royal families seeking political alliances, her autonomy hangs by a thread. To escape the shackles of arranged marriages and preserve her freedom, Solène strikes an audacious deal with a rival heir: a marriage of convenience. In the opulent halls of Askwomyt, they play the part of a passionately devoted couple, their public displays of affection meticulously crafted, their private lives starkly separate. Yet, as their shared deception weaves an intricate web, their forced proximity sparks an undeniable, dangerous chemistry. Solène, who prides herself on maintaining cheerful detachment, finds her carefully constructed walls crumbling. The real threat isn't just exposure of their contract, but the possibility that their fabricated love might become terrifyingly, irrevocably real, endangering both their hearts and the fragile peace of the kingdom.
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