Love Under Contract

On a rainy Thanksgiving, a husband decides to head home early from a work emergency, eager to surprise his wife, Chloe, who claimed she was working late on a promotional event. However, as he inserts his key into the lock, the unexpected sound of a woman's soft laughter and a man's low murmur echoes from their backyard. Frozen at the door, he realizes his wife is not at work, and he is about to uncover a devastating secret right inside his own home.

As the Holy Maiden of the Beast World, I was destined to marry three elite males and become the future Beast Lady. However, I discovered their dark secret: they loathed me and planned my assassination on our wedding night to install my half-sister in my place. To avoid this execution, I turned to the heavens during the selection of my chief mate. By drawing lots on sacred ground, I bypassed my murderous suitors and unexpectedly chose the clan's mysterious High Priest instead.

Following a sacred mountain custom, Doris Dotson spent ninety-nine grueling days crafting a silver comb to pledge her life to Louis Carpenter. Instead of accepting her devotion, Louis cruelly rejects her token, letting it shatter on the stone floor while choosing her rival, Amy Fox. Mocked as a disfigured outcast whom no other man would ever want, Doris refuses to break. Gathering her shattered comb, she boldly approaches the elite city investor, Mr. Gilbert, with a life-altering proposal.

Chloe Clark had it all: a glamorous Manhattan life and a tech mogul fiancé planning their dream wedding. But her world shatters when acid, hidden in her skincare, destroys her face. Seeking help, she finds her fiancé with her best friend, recording their laughter as they admit to the attack and steal her work. Thrown from a high-rise window, Chloe expects death—instead, she wakes in a freezing river, seventeen again, on the day her adoptive mother tried to kill her. Now reborn with a cold smile, she vows to make every betrayer pay in blood.

An accident stripped my husband of his memories, leading him to replace me with a manipulative influencer. After she framed me for injuring her child, he forced a guard to sew my lips shut as a brutal punishment. Publicly humiliated at my own estate, I finally saw my loyalty was wasted. My captors don't realize a hidden camera recorded their crimes, nor do they know my elite family is ready to crush his empire. My silence ends now as I seek total retribution.

After five years as Donald Hoover’s secret lover, I realized our relationship was a lie when I saw his secretary’s provocative post. Despite my gifts of gold, Donald mocked my background and destroyed my phone to prevent any public acknowledgment of us. Realizing he was never protecting our privacy but was instead hiding his infidelity, I finally gave up on him. I messaged my father to admit defeat and agreed to return home to inherit our massive family business.