Intelligent Romance のウェブ小説 & Love after Marriage ストーリー

To save her dying father and pay off his astronomical medical bills, Evelyn Vance agrees to a loveless contract marriage with Lucian Blackwood—the ruthless, feared "Tyrant of the Capital." ​To the world, Evelyn is just a fragile, helpless blind bride brought into a dark empire as a pawn. Her greedy stepmother and treacherous stepbrother think she is easily manipulated, while Lucian's jealous inner circle views her as useless. ​But they all made one dangerous mistake. ​When Evelyn lost her sight two years ago, her hearing became hyper-acute. She can hear the faintest whispers through thick doors, track heartbeat fluctuations in a lie, and decode encrypted phone calls from across a room. ​While her enemies scheme in the dark, Evelyn hears every betrayal, every corporate plot, and every dirty secret before they even strike. And as her cold, dangerous husband plays a deadly game of chess with the underworld, he has no idea that his "helpless" bride is listening to his every command—and orchestrating her own brilliant revenge right beside him.

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.

I walked down the aisle to marry the man I was supposed to hate. Adrian Blackwood was older, powerful, devastatingly attractive—and the last man I should have wanted. He was also the man I once caught leaving my mother’s bedroom. So when he offered to save my dying family business in exchange for marrying me, I knew exactly what I was getting into. Or so I thought. Because the moment Adrian became my husband, the rules changed. His hands lingered too long. His eyes followed me when he thought I wasn't looking. Every heated argument between us seemed to end with us standing far too close, fighting an attraction neither of us was willing to name. And the worst part? I wanted him. But Adrian wasn't the only one keeping secrets. My father didn't die in an accident. My mother knows why. And Adrian has been protecting the truth for sixteen years. Now forbidden desire is pulling me deeper into a marriage built on lies, while someone is determined to make sure I never discover what really happened the night my father died. I married my mother's secret lover. Now I'm falling into his bed, his secrets, and a passion I was never supposed to feel. But when I uncover the truth, I may discover that the man I thought stole my mother's heart has been protecting mine all along. He was my mother's forbidden secret. Now he's my husband. And I can't decide what's more dangerous—wanting him or discovering why he chose me.

Kirrily Archer walked out of Lachlan Vance’s life with nothing but a suitcase and a ruined name. Lachlan Sydney, ruthless billionaire energy mogul, believed his contract wife had betrayed him. Someone had leaked confidential information from Vance Enterprises. Every piece of evidence seemed to point toward Kirrily. He never stopped to ask why. He never discovered that Someone inside his company had threatened her with the one thing she couldn’t afford to lose her younger sister, “Tahlia”. If Kirrily refused to cooperate, Tahlia’s already fragile health would deteriorate. So Kirrily sacrificed herself, She let Sydney destroy her reputation. And when he threw her out into the rain, she left without telling him the one secret that could have changed everything. Four years later, Lachlan’s empire comes under attack from an anonymous investor operating under the name Archangel. The mysterious trader isn’t interested in making money but is slowly buying Vance Enterprises from the inside, piece by piece. Desperate to discover who is behind the takeover, Lachlan follows the trail, He expects to find his most dangerous corporate enemy. Instead, he finds Kirrily. She is no longer the frightened woman he remembers. She’s confident and financially brilliant. Standing beside her is a four year old boy whose silver grey eyes are unmistakably his. His son. Lachlan’s world collapses, but before he can even begin to repair what he destroyed, the first DNA test says Toby isn’t his. Someone has tampered with the evidence. Lachlan refuses to make the same mistake twice. Determined to uncover the truth, What he finds forces him to question everyone including the man who has stood beside him since childhood. “Callan Sterling.” His best friend. His most trusted executive. And the man who was planted to destroy his life.