Billionaire's First Doting Marriage

Xia Yangyang’s twentieth birthday smells like cheap perfume and betrayal. She opens the hotel room door, balloons still tied to her wrist, and finds her boyfriend tangled in the sheets with her so‑called best friend. The cake melts in its box. So does the girl she thought she was.

By nightfall, her name is on a marriage certificate beside Gu Qichen’s.

He’s the city’s untouchable legend: first on every rich list, last to show a flicker of warmth. People lower their voices when they mention him. Deals break or blossom with a single word from his lips. No one understands why he offers his hand to a humiliated birthday girl with red‑rimmed eyes and a suitcase full of nothing.

They call it a contract, a convenience, a joke. But the joke wears thin when Xia Yangyang stops apologizing for breathing and starts walking into boardrooms on the arm of the man everyone fears. The ex‑boyfriend suddenly remembers she’s the one he “truly loves”. The ex‑best friend smiles too sweetly and sharpens her knives in the dark. At home, a half‑sister and a calculating stepmother test just how far the Gu family’s protection will stretch.

The world only knows Gu Qichen as cold and merciless, the kind of man who destroys careers over a missed meeting. They don’t see the way he wraps a scarf around his wife’s neck because the wind “sounds wrong today”, or how he quietly ruins anyone who dares make her cry.

In a city built on polished glass and hidden rot, Xia Yangyang learns that being loved by a ruthless man is its own kind of armor—and its own kind of war.