The billionaire's discarded bride
Celia Rowan was never the daughter her parents loved.
When the Rowan family company faces collapse, they force her to marry billionaire heir Adrian Lancaster in her younger sister’s place. On her wedding night, Adrian is too drunk to notice the switch. He calls out her sister’s name while taking her innocence, and by morning everyone believes the same lie that Celia trapped her way into a marriage meant for someone else.
Branded a gold-digger by one family and a spare by the other, Celia lives for a year as an invisible wife in the Lancaster mansion. But when a final humiliation shatters the last hope in her heart, she leaves with nothing.
Soon after, she discovers she is pregnant with twins.
Six years later, Celia returns as the CEO of a luxury jewelry company, powerful enough to buy the very city that once looked down on her. She has come back for business, for divorce, and for closure. She has not come back for love.
But Adrian Lancaster is no longer the same cold man who let her suffer in silence. Their children carry his face. Her sister still wants to destroy her. And the marriage that began as a lie may become the one bond neither of them can cut cleanly.
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Chapter: Chapter 4 : Celia 'A Dangerous Kind of Hope'The next morning, breakfast was different.I entered the dining room expecting the same dry toast, the same silence, the same elegant dismissal that had wrapped around me since arriving in the Lancaster house.Instead, there was warm tea at my place. Eggs, buttered toast and fresh fruit too.I stopped for half a second before taking my seat.Vivian noticed, of course. Her gaze slid to the plate in front of me, then to Adrian. He sat three chairs away, reading the financial pages like the world around him did not exist. My fingers tightened around the cup.Eleanor noticed too. A soft, knowing smile brushed her face before she lifted her own tea.Breakfast ended with Vivian reminding me again about the charity tea tomorrow. Adrian rose from the table, collected his files, and walked out. Yet as he passed behind my chair, he paused just long enough to murmur, "The stew was decent."Decent? He was actually complimenting my food. The afternoon found me in the sunroom with Eleanor, helpin
Last Updated: 2026-05-21
Chapter: Chapter 3 : Celia 'The Invisible Mrs. Lancaster'By the third day of my marriage, I had learned my place in this house. Invisible.I stood just inside the dining room, fingers tightening around the edge of my sleeve as sunlight spilled across the polished silver and crystal glasses. The table was long enough to seat twelve, yet only four places had been set.Vivian Lancaster, Adrian's mom sat at the far end in cream silk, elegant and cold. Beside her, Eleanor Lancaster, his grandmother, stirred tea with thin, delicate fingers, despite her age. Adrian was already there too, dressed in charcoal, scanning something on his phone with a face carved from indifference.No one looked up or even noticed when I entered. For one foolish second, I wondered if I could slip away unnoticed.Then Vivian's voice cut through the silence."You're late."I glanced at the clock. It was Eight-oh-two. A whole two minutes."I'm sorry."She finally lifted her eyes to me. "In this family, punctuality is expected, not applauded."I moved to my seat without a
Last Updated: 2026-05-21
Chapter: Chapter 2 : Celia 'The Wrong Bride'I should have told him.The moment Adrian said Sienna's name, I should have stepped back and told him the truth.I should have said I wasn't her. I was Celia.The spare daughter. The substitute bride. The woman forced into a marriage by her own parents.But my throat closed, no words coming out.Maybe it was because I was too shocked. Or because I already knew the truth wouldn't save me.Adrian's fingers lingered against my cheek for a brief moment before they dropped. His eyes were dark, heavy with whiskey and exhaustion."Trembling already?"I hadn't even noticed that until then.I quickly tried to steady myself. "I..."But he wasn't listening.He slowly took off my veil and let it fall onto the chair behind me. His eyes skimmed over my face again, but there was still no recognition in them.Was he really that drunk?"Too late to run now," he muttered quietly.Before I could protest, he was over me, his lips pressing against mine with desperation.I should push him off. He didn't kn
Last Updated: 2026-05-21
Chapter: Chapter 1 : Celia 'The Spare Daughter"No."The word slipped out before I could stop it. It sounded too small in the drawing room, but it was enough to make the very air freeze.My father slowly looked up from the contract in his hand."What did you say?" Victor Rowan asked, his voice calm.I swallowed, though my throat had already dried up. "I said no."Across from me, Sienna gasped like I had committed a crime."Dad, do you hear her?" she said, one hand flying dramatically to her chest. "She's doing this on purpose."Of course I was.In this house, everything was always somehow my fault.The chandelier above us glittered warmly, but nothing in that room felt warm. Not my father's eyes. Not my mother's face. Not Sienna's trembling lower lip as she sat there in her dress, looking like a fragile angel instead of the woman who had just thrown me into hell."You ungrateful girl," Marianne Rowan screamed coldly. "Do you have any idea what is at stake here?"I almost laughed.For the past week, all I had heard was stake, merge
Last Updated: 2026-05-21
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