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Chapter 34
Hayden Gray
17:02,Jul 27,2026
Chloe's financial struggles push her into a marriage of convenience with the enigmatic Noah Hayes, a man she barely knows. What starts as a six-month contract, orchestrated by Noah's matchmaking grandmother, Dorothy Hayes, quickly becomes complicated. Chloe finds herself navigating the opulent world of the Hayes family, unaware that Noah's humble demeanor is a carefully constructed charade masking immense wealth. As she tries to maintain her independence through her online craft business, and Noah struggles with an unfamiliar emotion he refuses to call jealousy, their fake marriage begins to blur the lines of reality. But with ambitious Audrey Vance determined to claim Noah and a fierce corporate rivalry brewing, can Chloe protect her heart, or will the Hayes family's secrets shatter their fragile arrangement?
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Chapter 20
Emily Carter
10:17,Jul 30,2026
Forced into a substitute marriage with a powerful tycoon family, Sia Thubron had been nothing more than her clan's castoff. Yet with a cool head and a razor-sharp mind, she rewrote the board her fate was played on. On the surface, she looked fragile, a pawn to be pushed wherever others pleased. Beneath it, she was unbreakable steel, a blade kept sheathed until the moment it mattered.
On her wedding night, she received no tenderness, only indifference and careful tests. Behind the gilded doors of the elite, she faced schemes stacked on schemes, conspiracies nested in smiles. When power bore down and the truth finally surfaced, she advanced step by step, tearing open the family's polished façade with calculated precision.
A pawn? No. She meant to be the one holding the pieces.
Marriage was the trap. Life and death were the wager. In the end, who walked away the winner?
