นิยายเว็บแนว Contemporary และเรื่องราว Intelligent ในฉาก Contract Marriage

After a drunken one-night stand with a mysterious stranger, brilliant young researcher Julia Reid returns home only to discover that her family has arranged to marry her off to an elderly billionaire in exchange for financial salvation. Refusing to become a bargaining chip, Julia comes up with a desperate plan: find a stranger willing to marry her first. When fate reunites her with the handsome man from that unforgettable night, what begins as a marriage of convenience soon entangles them in secrets, family betrayal, ambition, and an unexpected love neither of them saw coming.

Claire Whitman spent two years fighting to save her dying father’s company. Then billionaire investor Weston Cole takes it from her and offers her one brutal way to get it back. "Marry me for eight weeks, and your father’s legacy survives". With no other choice, Claire becomes the billionaire’s contract wife, determined to hate the man the media calls a predator. But Weston isn't the monster she expected. Behind his ruthless reputation is a man who becomes dangerously protective of her, while hidden records reveal his hostile takeover may have been a secret rescue—and Claire's trusted mentor may be the real enemy. Then Weston's ex-fiancée returns with a secret capable of destroying his empire and their marriage just days before the merger vote. When a leaked scandal threatens everything, Weston makes a shocking decision on live television: He publicly declares that his marriage to Claire was nothing but a business deal. Claire believes every word. But she doesn't know the truth. Weston lied to save her life—and the real enemy has just made his first move.

Ellie never wanted this marriage. Jayden made it clear he never wanted her. A cold house. A colder husband. A family that looked her in the eye and made her wish she was invisible instead. Her dream awaits her. She told herself she could survive it. She had before. But surviving Jayden was a different thing entirely. She hated him. He couldn't stand her. So why couldn't either of them stop? Between the hatred, the challenges that kept coming and the conspiracies working against them from every direction they were never supposed to make it. Just when things start to shift between them, everything falls apart. The real reason she was chosen comes to light. The secret behind their marriage. The betrayal that had been there from the very beginning. The hidden secret of her family and her new home. She was signed to him with the vow. Love was never part of the deal. Or was it?

"Sign the paper, Evelyn. Six months. Five hundred thousand dollars. No feelings involved." Desperate to pay for her sister’s life-saving Swiss medical treatments, Evelyn accepts a cold contract marriage with Julian Vance—the ruthless billionaire CEO of Vance Enterprises. To the public, she is his elegant society bride. Behind closed doors, she is just a temporary business arrangement. But when a ruthless corporate enemy frames Evelyn for leaking a $100M project blueprint, Julian does the unthinkable: he publicly suspends her to satisfy his corrupt board, while privately starting a high-stakes war to protect her. Caught between a rejected, envious heiress, a traitorous uncle, and a lethal corporate alliance, Evelyn stops playing the victim. Armed with dark secrets and covert recordings, she steps directly into the lion’s den—not just to clear her name, but to save the empire of the man who secretly gave her his heart.

"You aren't going to Geneva to fight a legal war, my love," he whispered, framing her cheek with his broad palm, his dark blue eyes burning with an absolute, terrifying conviction. "You are going to Geneva to watch me execute a corporate execution." Architect Evelyn Bennett signed a corporate marriage contract with Alexander Vance the terrifying, unyielding Chairman of Vance Enterprises for one reason: to protect her late father's legacy from absolute ruin. She expected cold balance sheets, ruthless board meetings, and a husband made of ice. She didn't expect the fierce, intoxicating devotion of a man who would burn down empires to keep her safe. When a bitter ghost from Evelyn's past resurfaces with forged debt notes and a multi-billion-dollar legal snare designed to strip her of her life's work, her enemies make one fatal mistake, they assume she is standing alone. Can Evelyn and Alexander dismantle a global conspiracy before it destroys everything they’ve built, or will the shadows of the past shatter their fragile sanctuary? Find out in The Vance Legacy, an explosive story of power, revenge, protective devotion, and an unbreakable love that defies the odds.

Sabine Castellane has thirty days to get engaged or lose the family business and the home she has always known. Her grandmother's will leaves her with one impossible condition, she must become engaged to the man her grandmother trusted most. Unfortunately, that man is Julianii Marchetti, Sabine's ruthless business rival and the last person on earth she would ever choose to marry. With her manipulative uncle ready to seize control of the company the moment she fails, Sabine makes Julianii an offer she is certain he will refuse. Six months as her fake fiancé. In exchange, she secures her inheritance, and when the six months end, they walk away, no strings, no questions, Julianii agrees. Living together turns their old rivalry into something neither of them expected. Their arguments grow charged. Their staged kisses linger. The man Sabine has spent years despising becomes the one who notices when she is hurting. Soon, pretending feels dangerously real. But Julianii is hiding something. Years ago, a business deal involving Sabine's family destroyed his own family's future, and Julianii believes her father was responsible. He agreed to this engagement to know the truth. Sabine was never meant to become part of his plan. She was meant to be the woman he investigated. Instead, she became the woman he fell for. Then Sabine finds his file, proof that Julianii has been studying her from the very beginning. Suddenly every kiss feels fake. Now, as the truth turns out to be closer to home than either of them imagined, and their six-month arrangement reaches its end, Sabine must decide if she can trust the man she loves. Six months was supposed to be enough time to secure an inheritance. It was never supposed to be enough to fall in love with the enemy.

“If I could not escape in peace as the victim, then this time, I would be the executioner. This time… I would kill him first.” Forced into a marriage of convenience to secure the Sinclair family’s billion-dollar inheritance, Julia spends ten years trapped with a cold and unfaithful husband. On the very day she is finally supposed to be free, she is betrayed, humiliated… and murdered by her own husband and his lover. But she wakes up on her wedding day. Protected by an amulet passed down through the women of her family, she relives the same cycle for the third time. In her previous attempts, running away and submitting did not prevent her death. Now, Julia decides to change the rules: instead of trying to survive, she will seek revenge. Colder and more dangerous, Julia begins manipulating the Sinclair power games while growing closer to Caleb, her husband’s best friend, the only man who ever treated her as a choice rather than an obligation. Scarred by deep trauma, Julia struggles to trust again, while Caleb slowly wins her over with respect, consistency, and loyalty. Amid love triangles, betrayals, family secrets, and premeditated murder, Julia plans to destroy Michael, frame his lover, and bring down the empire that imprisoned her. But the greatest choice will not be revenge. It will be allowing herself to love again.

"In twenty-four hours, Anya Sterling went from being the genius chief architect of the city's most anticipated AI software to a disgraced pariah. On the night of her engagement, she caught her fiancé, Julian Vance, in the arms of her stepsister—only to realize they had systematically stolen her life's work and framed her for corporate espionage. Cast out into a freezing rainstorm, penniless and blacklisted, Anya is faced with two choices: succumb to ruin, or sign a pact with the devil himself. Enter Devon Vance. The enigmatic, ruthless, and untouchable Chairman of Vortex Holdings—and Julian’s ultimate nightmare. He needs a transactional wife for 365 days to secure his corporate throne; she needs a legal war chest to burn her enemies to ash. The contract is signed. The terms are strictly professional. But as Devon shields her from the world with obsessive protectiveness, Anya realizes that the most dangerous part of her revenge isn't breaking the Vance family... it's surviving the unyielding gaze of the Alpha CEO."

Serena Voss walked into Nate Calloway's office to beg for more time on a loan. She walked out as his fiancée. The deal was simple. Sixty days, one role to play, and every debt her family owed would disappear. No feelings. No complications. Just business. But Nate had been looking for her for ten years. And Serena had no idea why. The more time they spend together the harder it becomes to pretend. But when secrets buried between their families long before either of them were born come tearing into the open, Serena starts to wonder if any of it was ever really her choice — or if she was always just the last piece of a plan someone else made decades ago.