My Darling Dandelion
By @john1208
Zoya Vasilievna seems like the perfect, harmless bride for the stone-cold heir of the Volkov empire, Kaelan Volkov. Their marriage is a simple business transaction, a merger of old money and new power. To everyone, especially the scheming Sokolov family who arranged the match, Zoya is a cheerful, glitter-obsessed ditz, a dandelion puff to be blown away at their convenience. But beneath the saccharine smiles and pastel outfits is a razor-sharp mind, armed with a secret backer and a deathbed promise to protect her family's true legacy. Forced to collaborate with her indifferent husband on a high-stakes ecological architecture project, Zoya juggles sabotaging the Sokolovs' plans, winning over her skeptical in-laws, and keeping her own formidable intellect a secret. But the Sokolovs' matriarch has a desperate, tragic reason for her machinations, one that is deeply entangled with Zoya's own past. As the stakes get higher, can Zoya protect everyone she cares about without revealing the brilliant woman she truly is?
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