Billionaire's First Doting Marriage

Xia Yangyang’s twentieth birthday candles are still smoking when her life caves in.

The gift she never asked for: the sound of laughter behind a half‑closed hotel door, the tangle of her boyfriend’s shirt on the floor, her best friend’s perfume thick in the air. One glimpse is enough. The girl who used to swallow every insult and smile on command walks out without a scene, carrying nothing but the taste of betrayal on her tongue.

By nightfall, the city’s most untouchable man has slipped a ring onto her finger.

Gu Qichen is the name whispered in boardrooms and gossip columns—sharp suits, colder eyes, the kind of money that bends rules. To outsiders, their sudden marriage looks like a transaction, a whim, a power play. To Xia Yangyang, it’s a door she never expected to open, into a world where she is no longer the one being stepped on.

Her ex starts hovering at the edges of her new life, flowers in hand, shameless excuses ready. The “friend” who stole him sharpens her smile and sets her traps. At home, a calculating stepmother and a venomous half‑sister treat Xia Yangyang like a stain that needs scrubbing out of the family portrait.

They don’t see the way Gu Qichen’s hand tightens around hers when he stands beside her. They don’t hear his voice, flat as ice, when he says her enemies are now his problems.

The city believes Gu Qichen has no softness in him at all. Only Xia Yangyang knows the truth: the same man who can ruin a rival with a phone call will quietly drape his coat over her bare shoulders, as if he’s shielding the one thing in his ruthless life he refuses to lose.