Contemporary 웹소설 & Decisive Contract Marriage 스토리

when tragedy strikes, carmilla finds her life turned upside down as she returns home after hearing the devastating news of her brother's untimely death. In a twist of fate, she is thrust into an arranged marriage with the affluent family her brother was to unite with. As carmilla begins her new life, she uncovers a web of secrets and the lies that harbored within the lavish halls of her new family's estate. Can she navigate the treacherous web of her new family's deceit or will she become the next victim of their ruthless ambition.

Five years after a desperate one-night stand with a masked stranger, an impoverished mother becomes the live-in housekeeper for a ruthless CEO—unaware he is the father of her triplets, or that he has spent years hunting for her.

Ariella was told she could never have children— a lie carefully bought and paid for by her own husband. But one fatal fertility mix-up leaves her carrying triplets… children that were never meant to be hers. Their father is a man she’s never met— a ruthless billionaire who doesn’t lose what belongs to him. And now he wants everything. The babies. The truth. And the woman carrying his legacy. He vows to claim her heart too.

Camila had three years to live, and she chose to spend them loving her husband. But with only one month left, she discovers the devastating truth: her marriage was a lie, her medication had been slowly killing her, and the man she loved had been waiting for her to die. Refusing to die quietly, Camila tears herself from the ruins of her past and agrees to a contract marriage with Aston Winston—a cold, powerful billionaire with secrets of his own. She wants revenge and he wants a wife but neither of them expects their carefully written contract to become the one thing neither can control. But as the man who betrayed her comes crawling back and long-buried truths begin to surface, Camila must decide whether to keep chasing revenge... or risk everything for the one man she never meant to love.

After five years of betrayal, Meredith Benic is abandoned at the altar by Alpha Alarick Holt for her stepsister, Clover. Humiliated and heartbroken, Meredith finally walks away. But years of Alarick’s unstable bond have weakened her wolf, leaving her with only one choice: accept the arranged marriage she once ran from. Her new husband is Kieran Croft, the feared Rogue Alpha of Silverthorn. Their marriage is meant to be political. Meredith needs his mark to save her wolf, and Kieran needs her family name to regain his place among the packs. But as Meredith struggles to earn Silverthorn’s loyalty, Kieran’s cold protection begins to feel like something far more dangerous. When Alarick realizes Meredith now belongs to the one Alpha he fears most, jealousy turns into obsession. With Clover feeding his rage and the coalition turning against Silverthorn, Meredith must choose between saving herself or standing beside the Rogue Alpha everyone calls a traitor. She was once the bride Alarick abandoned. Now she will become the Luna he regrets losing.

Ashley Dawson, a brilliant 22-year-old chemistry student, has lived a quiet life defined by loss and independence. Though she secretly owns a massive pharmaceutical empire inherited from her late mother and grandmother, Ashley prefers the simplicity of her lab over boardrooms and business deals. Her fiancé, Harvey West-a wealthy, charismatic CEO-was once her dream man, but their love story shatters the day before their wedding when Harvey asks for an open marriage and an NDA to protect his affairs. Heartbroken, Ashley is pulled into a dangerous new world when a domestic terror group develops a deadly chemical weapon. The military calls in Major Nathan Ford, Harvey's cousin and a decorated U.S. Army Special Forces officer, to lead the operation. Nathan needs a brilliant chemist to help decipher the weapon's formula-Ashley becomes that civilian consultant. Forced to work together under high pressure, Ashley and Nathan build an unlikely partnership, discovering strength, trust, and a slow-burning attraction. Meanwhile, Harvey refuses to let go, flaunting his mistress in public and humiliating Ashley. When Ashley finally breaks off the engagement, Harvey spirals, convinced Nathan stole her away. Nathan proposes a marriage of protection, offering her his name and his shield against Harvey and his powerful family. Ashley, tired of being powerless and cornered, agrees. Their whirlwind marriage shocks society, ignites scandal, and sets the stage for a passionate love story built on loyalty, respect, and redemption.

Desperate to save her dying brother, Lina Vale signs a one-year marriage contract with cold billionaire Adrian Korr, who needs a stable wife to claim his inheritance. Strict rules. No emotions. No future. But as they live together, boundaries blur and real feelings emerge. When her ex Ethan returns, Lina is torn between past and present. On the final day, Adrian lets her walk away in silence. Until she discovers the truth: the contract was never terminated. Adrian secretly renewed it. She thought she was free. She was never free to begin with.

Sophie Ashford and her identical twin Charlotte have spent their lives being compared, confused, and quietly resented by each other. When Charlotte vanishes four days before her arranged wedding to Julian Calloway — heir to a shipping empire and the man their families have spent a decade maneuvering to unite — Sophie steps in to save face, planning to stall just long enough for Charlotte to be found. She tells herself it's temporary. She tells herself Julian won't notice.He notices immediately. Julian has known something was wrong with Charlotte for months — the woman he was engaged to felt like a stranger long before her twin took her place. He doesn't expose Sophie. Instead, he watches her, testing her, drawn to her in a way he never was to her sister, and slowly Sophie realizes he's not trying to catch her in a lie. He's trying to find out why she's telling it and the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember which parts of herself she's still pretending.

One of the men cracked his knuckles loud enough to make my stomach flip. Another grabbed my wrist and slammed my hand flat on the table. A blade glinted as it rose. ​“Please! Please—” Hot tears blurred my vision. My heartbeat roared in my ears. ​“Make it quick.” Moe snapped his fingers. "Seven hundred thousand," Kieran said, sliding the folder across the table. "Pretend to be my wife for six months." ​Kieran Wolfe is a billionaire with a cold heart who must marry to secure his inheritance. But he has one rule: she can never, under any circumstances, touch him. ​Sienna thinks the debt collectors were the dangerous ones. But as she signs the contract, she realises that being the wife of a man who refuses all human contact might be a far more dangerous game.

For seven years, Alina Virelle was the perfect wife. Gentle. Patient. Quietly devoted. She loved Lucien Drax in silence, even when he gave her nothing in return no warmth, no affection, not even a place in his world. But she stayed. Because she believed that one day, he would finally see her. She was wrong. On her birthday, Alina crosses countries just to be with her husband and daughter… only to find herself standing outside a life that no longer includes her. Another woman has already taken her place. And the most painful part? Her daughter doesn’t reach for her. That day, Alina doesn’t cry. She doesn’t beg. She doesn’t fight. She simply lets go. She signs the divorce papers. Walks away from the marriage. And disappears from their lives without looking back. But the woman who returns is no longer the quiet wife who endured everything. She is distant. Untouchable. And far more powerful than anyone remembers. Just as Alina begins to rebuild her life, Lucien starts coming back. More often. Closer than ever. Watching her like she is someone he is only now seeing for the first time. Until the day he discovers the truth. She wants a divorce. And this time… he refuses to let her go. “A divorce?” he says, his calm finally breaking as he traps her against the wall. “You don’t get to leave me… not now.” But what Lucien doesn’t understand is Alina already left him long ago.

Desperate to expose Damian core, the elusive tech tycoon who built his empire on cyber security and global defense contracts who was accused of his company being involved in money laundering network by my senior colleague Charlotte. When a Data breach scandal forces Damon into a reputation saving marriage. I sneaked through the opportunity, posing as a PR consultant to get closer enough to him. We got married and I got enough evidence. It was a wrong evidence which leaks to the press, Damian world crumbled I realized it was too late because he wasn't the criminal. Now Damian is gone. Five years later, he returned from the shadows alive, changed and determined. Now, will Damian forgive me and grant me a second chance?

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent me, heartbreak on a platter of gold. How thoughtful. Melody Hart once believed December carried its own charm, everything feels beautiful and magical, and she would be having a Christmas wedding, something she’d dreamed of since childhood. But magic turned to ash the moment she walked in on the man she loved, unwrapping someone else like a gift. Determined to start over, she runs to New York City with nothing but a bruised heart and an almost empty bank account . She isn’t searching for miracles anymore. She just wants a job, a bed that’s not a borrowed couch, and one peaceful night where she doesn’t cry herself to sleep. Just like she had her problems, Logan Russo had his. He needs a woman for Christmas, someone who would be able to act in front of his whole family, just to get them off his neck. Melody needs two hundred thousand dollars. Neither of them needs love. The universe brought them together, two desperate strangers who needed each other. What started off as a confrontation at the airport, soon blossomed into something beautiful. She got her Christmas miracle after all. All that was short-lived because the universe had other plans. But this time, how much can she take, how willing is she to protect what she's built? Only time will tell.

Clarissa has spent seven years being humiliated, slapped, cheated on, and spoken to like she’s disposable—but the moment she walks in on her husband and his mistress mocking her existence, something inside her finally snaps. What rises in that quiet, beaten-down woman isn’t fear anymore—it’s anger sharp enough to gut an empire. By the time Nicho realizes the wife he thought he owned is about to destroy everything he built, it’s already too damn late. Why don't you read on and see the uprising of Clarissa Monroe...

Arlene Rhodes thought prison had taken everything from her. She was wrong. The most dangerous chapter of her life began the day she married Simone Brookes. The marriage was supposed to be just a deal. A fresh start for her, and a solution for him. Nothing more… But the man waiting behind the gates of the Brookes estate is colder, darker, and far more complicated than Arlene expected. The closer she gets to him, the more secrets she uncovers, and the more she realizes that some wounds never truly heal. As old enemies return and buried truths begin to surface, Arlene finds herself trapped between the life she lost and the future she never saw coming. Because in the Brookes family, everyone is hiding something. And falling for her husband might be the most dangerous mistake of all.

Pregnant and desperate to hold onto the future she was promised, Mylar runs to the man she loves—only to catch him with another woman. Heartbroken, she flees and nearly gets hit by a car owned by the last man she would ever want in her life: Zayn Delle. Cold, wealthy, and impossible to please. Trying to start over, Mylar leaves for the neighboring city and takes a job in a powerful company, only to discover Zayn is her new boss. When family pressure forces him to find a wife, Zayn offers her a contract marriage that could solve both their problems. But living as husband and wife soon becomes more complicated than either of them expected. With jealous rivals, family secrets, hidden truths, and a past that refuses to stay buried, Mylar is drawn deeper into a world she never belonged to—and into the arms of a man she was never meant to love. When betrayal returns in the most shocking way, Mylar must decide if love is worth risking everything for.

The night my father collapsed, I learned some men negotiate with money… but Noah Thorne negotiates with lives. I never planned to marry a billionaire CEO, especially not the man my father owed $50,000 to. But when the hospital demanded an $80,000 deposit before surgery, life made the choice for me. While my mother sobbed in a cold hallway, Noah’s bodyguard arrived with an offer, an arranged marriage, a contract marriage that would clear the debt and cover every medical bill. When I confronted Noah, he presented the terms without cruelty: one year, no intimacy, public appearances only, and freedom after. He believed he was offering mercy but I felt like beautifully packaged captivity. Desperation crushed pride, and I signed. Our “marriage” was a seven-minute formality, no vows, no meaning. Moving into his penthouse was like stepping into a museum built to contain silence. Publicly, we were the perfect romance. Privately, we were strangers navigating a fragile arrangement thick with unspoken tension. Complications followed us: Noah’s elegant, smug ex who treated me like a placeholder, and my own ex-boyfriend, whose sudden reappearance triggered jealousy in Noah he couldn’t hide. Arguments, silences, and late-night moments softened something between us. Slowly, painfully, the man behind the empire emerged, the lonely boy shaped by loss, abandonment, and guarded walls. We began to care. We tried to deny it. Feelings weren’t in the contract but feelings don’t read contracts. Near the end of the year, Noah pulled away. I thought he wanted freedom. He signed the release papers with steady hands and a breaking heart. I was almost gone when he whispered the truth: “Please don’t go.” We tore up the contract. A year later, we married again, this time for love, not survival. This time, I chose him

Neveah's wedding day ends in humiliation when her fiancé abandons her at the altar, claiming she is too controlling, stubborn, and impossible to live with. Instead of begging him to return, Neveah walks away. She takes a break from work and spends her days trying to forget the disaster that ruined her plans for the future. But just when she begins getting her life back together, her parents present her with a marriage proposal from one of their family's oldest business allies. The groom is Sebastian Blackwood. Her British nemesis. Sebastian and Neveah have hated each other since high school. Their rivalry followed them through college, with every encounter turning into a competition. Neither has ever been willing to admit defeat. Sebastian isn't interested in marriage either. His father's endless blind dates have left him convinced that most women only want his wealth, influence, and family name. But when his father suggests Neveah, Sebastian surprisingly agrees. After all, Neveah would rather insult him than flatter him for his money. Their marriage begins as nothing more than a convenient arrangement between two powerful families. But living under the same roof is a completely different battle. Their arguments become banter. Their rivalry becomes attraction. And the woman Sebastian once considered his greatest annoyance slowly becomes the only woman he can't imagine losing. For Neveah, however, falling in love again is terrifying. After being abandoned once, trusting another man with her heart feels like giving him the power to destroy her all over again. Sebastian is determined to prove that he isn't her first fiancé—and that this time, she wasn't chosen for him. She was chosen by him. They married expecting to survive each other. Neither expected to fall in love.

Everyone believed Yilena Stone was in the “best" relationship to exist. She had a hot, rich and influential husband who showered her with gifts others could only dream to receive. But they didn't know it was all a facade to cover up her already strained marriage to the magnificent Mr. Stone. After experiencing heartbreak after heartbreak Yilena decided it was time to leave without looking back— Levi Reinhardt had completely given up on the idea of love as each attempt he made only led him back to the starting line. As he watched his cousin's" fiancee” get ridiculed at the family dinner he pondered what kind of person she was underneath the smiles she gave. Would this mess lead Yilena to the arms of the equally influential Levi Reinhardt? Or would they both break under the intense wrath of Mr. Carter Stone?

Forced to marry the billionaire cousin brother of her boyfriend, Lila watches her life fall apart—and ends up tangled in a marriage she never wanted, with a man who refuses to let her go.

After three years of a loveless marriage, Sophie Clarke’s life shatters when her husband, Alexander Cole, hands her divorce papers on their anniversary. Betrayed and broken, she walks away determined to rebuild her life. Five years later, Sophie has everything she once dreamed of—success, independence, and a daughter she’d do anything to protect. But when Alexander suddenly reappears, old wounds are reopened, and buried emotions begin to surface. Sophie is forced to face the man who destroyed her and the truth about the love she thought was gone forever. Can she forgive him, or will her heart choose revenge instead?