Contemporary Romance 웹소설 & Playboy Substitute Bride 스토리

Sophie is delighted to be marrying Sebastian, the billionaire heir to the Castillo line, who has always been her childhood crush. She counts herself one of the few amongst her peers, who wouldn't have to deal with the unpleasant ordeal of a loveless marriage, But all that hope is crushed when she's jilted at the altar by her intended groom who doesn't show up. But worse than being the jilted bride, is the crushing reality that the wedding is expected to go on. Only, instead of marrying Sebastian, she would be marrying his cold hearted, arrogant recluse of a half-brother; Dante Castillo. And in her opinion, that was the worst fate any young lady could ever be sentenced to. Or was it..?

Elena never asked for a family that smiled with empty eyes. For twenty-two years she lived on the edge of town, counting hospital bills and the thin sound of her grandmother’s breathing. Then the Ashfords arrived, polished and perfect, claiming her as their lost twin. They promised the best care for the only person who had ever loved her. All she had to do was come home. Home turned out to be a mansion of mirrors. Her sister Vivian wore their shared face like a crown and refused the marriage that would bind their family to the powerful Blackwood brothers. So Elena was dressed in silk, taught to speak like someone else, and delivered as the substitute bride. She expected cold duty. Instead she found three men who looked at her as if she were a storm they could not control. Adrian had already been protecting her from a distance. Sebastian tested every quiet edge. Nathan simply stayed when staying cost him everything. The Ashfords never meant for her to become real. When the brothers began to want the girl instead of the name, they poisoned the grandmother. Grief made Elena sharper. Vivian’s jealousy turned vicious. And when Elena discovered she carried Nathan’s child, the family that sold her decided both mother and baby had to disappear. She was never the spare. She was born first.

Eleanor Whitestone was bred for perfection, polished, poised, and promised to the man her father handpicked to secure their empire. But on her wedding day, everything shatters when she catches her fiancé in bed with her own sister. Humiliated and discarded, Eleanor’s world collapses in a single, brutal moment. Drowning in champagne and desperation, she makes a reckless choice: one night in the arms of Damian Laird, the city’s most ruthless billionaire CEO and her ex-fiancé’s sworn rival. She never expects the morning after to come with a proposition as shocking as her betrayal: marry him, carry his heir, and together they’ll destroy the people who broke her. Damian is cold, calculating, and devastatingly magnetic. He doesn’t believe in love but he does believe in revenge. And Eleanor is the perfect weapon…if she can survive the war they’re about to wage. But in a high stakes game of power and seduction, lines blur, and desire ignites into something neither of them saw coming. This time, Eleanor won’t be a pawn. She’ll be the queen and she’ll burn down anyone who tries to cage her again.