Exclusive Love のウェブ小説 & Goodgirl Substitute Bride ストーリー

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.

"I can't believe you're a virgin, Ivy." "I am." "Strip then." She could not believe her ears. Her life crumbled the day she was forced to replace Ivy - her step sister. A virginity test. An arranged marriage. Jada Weston's doom begins the night she’s forced to replace her sister in an arranged marriage to Rowan Donovan, the ruthless billionaire known as the King of Northhill. What should have been her sister’s future becomes Jada's prison. Rowan finds out. And he's very very angry. He believes Jada's blood is tied to the woman who destroyed his past, and he marries her not for love, but for vengeance. Cold nights, hidden desire, and dangerous attraction bind them together until love grows where hatred once lived. But when jealousy, lies, and a deadly twin’s scheme frame Jada for betrayal, she is cast out of the empire she fought to protect. And Jada must decide: reclaim her throne, or burn Northhill to the ground.

Princess Merlara is awoken by her sister with news of an attack heading their way. Merlara learns that an arranged marriage between her eldest sister and Prince Kaelen of the Southern Kingdom is their only hope for military aid. But when her sister flees, Merlara steps up, disguising herself as the bride-to-be and setting off towards the Southern Kingdom. Her journey takes a turn when her convoy is attacked, and she is captured by a mysterious and powerful warrior named Cerus, from the Eastern Kingdom. Mistaking her for Merlara's eldest sister, Cerus vows to return her to her husband to be and they travel together to the Southern Kingdom. But the journey there ignites something deep between them. Merlara questions if she should tell him the truth of who she is and Cerus has secrets of his own. As Merlara grapples with her feelings, her loyalty is tested as she finds herself caught in a web of deceit, power struggles, and ancient magic. Can she save her kingdom and her newfound love, or will she be the ultimate sacrifice in a game of thrones and dragons?

~ A Romance Novella ~ “Prepare Clara. In three days' time, you'll marry in your sister’s place. Understood?” … Clara Hathaway has always been the disposable daughter, the shunned older sister no one wanted meant to stay in the shadows. But when her family's company is crumbling and the price is an arranged marriage, she's forced to become a substitute, assuming her younger sister's identity to marry the ruthless heir of the mysterious Damiani Family. She expects cruelty, a cold bed and a loveless marriage. Instead, she gets a wedding night full of ecstasy. Luca Damiani is everything they say and nothing like she imagined. Under him, she is drawn to a world of pleasure she never dared to imagine and a devotion so overwhelming from the man who is meant to be ruthless. When his family embraces her like one of their own, Clara finally knows what it feels like to belong. For the first time, Clara feels chosen. Desired. Safe. And as she starts to bloom into a confident woman, she finds herself falling hard for the husband who was supposed to be temporary and craving the belonging his family gave. But as her family's ambitions are revealed and someone inside the Damiani Empire wants to destroy them both, her fake identity is cracking. Faced with a momentous decision that could change everything, the question lingers. If Luca finds out she's been lying about who she really is, will he still want her?