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Wren Calloway has exactly two things going for her: a steady job at a diner she loves, and a dream she hasn't been able to afford yet. Then a man in a suit that costs more than her rent sits down in her section — not to order food, but to offer her a contract. One year of marriage. Five million dollars. And a credit card with no limit. Beckett Harlow doesn't want a wife. He wants his inheritance. His dying father's will is brutally simple — marry within six months or watch the billion-dollar Harlow empire pass to a cousin who'll burn it to the ground. The only woman his father will accept is the waitress who's been serving him decaf every Tuesday for three years. Beckett thinks she's a gold-digger. She thinks he's an insufferable prick. They're both wrong. They just don't know it yet. What starts as a transaction — signed, sealed, strategically airtight — cracks open the moment they're forced to actually live together. Because you can't share a kitchen at 2 a.m., carry someone inside when they've fallen asleep in the car, or hold a man's hand in the doorway of his dead brother's life without the contract becoming irrelevant. The elite world they're navigating is vicious, the opposition is relentless, and the clock is always running. But the real war isn't in the boardroom. It's in the space between two people who agreed to perform love and accidentally started feeling it. Terms and Conditions: Love Not Included is a slow-burn romance about what happens when the deal expires and neither party wants to leave — 140 chapters of tension, tenderness, and the quiet devastation of falling for someone you were never supposed to keep. The terms were simple. The feelings didn't get the memo.

What's the price of one year of your life? For Lara Whitfield, the math is simple. A hospital bill she can't pay. Twin sisters whose tuition gap financial aid won't touch. A mother fighting her way back from illness. And a dream — a catering business called Whitfield's, mapped out in a green notebook she keeps under her mattress — that waitressing wages will never reach. She's been holding her family together since she was nineteen. She knows how to survive. What she doesn't know is how to say yes to something this reckless. Then Callum Mercer walks into her diner. He's thirty-three, the CEO of Mercer Holdings, and the kind of man who has never once been late to anything — including, apparently, the moment he decides to propose a business arrangement to a woman he's never met. His father's will carries a condition: marry before his thirty-fourth birthday, or lose the inheritance. The woman named in that will — recommended, not required — is Lara. The offer is five million dollars. One year. A contract that protects them both. She has twenty-four hours to decide. She says yes. But here's what neither of them planned for. They planned for logistics. For public events and shared spaces and the careful choreography of two private people learning not to collide. They planned for performance — the practiced ease of a couple that has something to prove. They didn't plan for 6 AM coffee already made when she gets to the kitchen. They didn't plan for sticky notes multiplying on a refrigerator that's never had anything on it before. They didn't plan for the way she'd talk about her dream and he'd listen — really listen — and quietly dog-ear the page. They didn't plan for the farmer's market at dawn, or cardamom cake that tastes like a memory he'd buried, or the specific way she laughs in the kitchen — unguarded, real — that he's started protecting without meaning to. And Lara didn't plan to understand him. To see, underneath the precision and the walls, a man who learned to provide for people because he never learned to be present for them. A man who was built by a father who loved a company more than a son, and who has spent thirty years quietly, methodically, making sure he never needed anyone enough to be abandoned. She didn't plan to become the exception. The contract has one rule she can't break. Don't fall in love. He said it on day one, flat and informational, the way you'd put a warning label on something dangerous. She laughed. She meant it, at the time. There was a reason she took this deal, and the reason was practical, and she was not the kind of woman who lost herself in circumstances she walked into with open eyes. But seven months in, she writes in the back of her green notebook — the one she only ever uses for business plans — I didn't plan to love him. It happened in the Tuesday mornings. And somewhere across the penthouse, Callum is on the phone with his oldest friend, saying the only honest thing he has left: "I don't want the contract to end." One Year, Five Million, and You is a slow-burn contemporary romance about two people who chose each other for the wrong reasons and stayed for the right ones. It's about what happens when survival and love arrive at the same door. When the most controlled man in the room meets the one woman who sees him without needing anything back. When a deal meant to stay clean becomes the most real thing either of them has ever been part of. It's about holding things together and learning — finally, reluctantly, beautifully — to be held. The contract was for one year. What they built was permanent. Perfect for readers who love: Slow-burn billionaire romance · Enemies-to-lovers tension · Emotionally complex leads who earn every inch of their happy ending · Stories where love isn't a lightning bolt but a slow, quiet fire that takes everything you have to walk toward

I married a monster to save my sister. Now he won't let me go. I have forty-eight hours to find $750,000, or my sixteen-year-old sister becomes collateral damage for our father's gambling debts. I'm a pediatric nurse with $340 in my bank account and zero options—until a man in a tailored suit finds me at midnight and makes an offer that sounds completely insane: Marry his employer. Ask no questions. Obey without hesitation. In exchange? Every debt erased. My family protected. Forever. I sign the contract without reading it. I don't meet my husband until our wedding day. Killian Archer is the most beautiful—and terrifying—man I've ever seen. Ice-blue eyes that miss nothing. A presence that makes grown men step back. And everyone in this city either worships him or fears him. The ceremony takes eleven minutes. He slides a platinum ring onto my finger like a shackle and says three words that change everything: "You're mine now." I expect a wedding night. Instead, he shows me to a separate bedroom and gives me rules: Don't leave without security. Don't ask about his business. Don't test him. He keeps his distance—cold, controlled, untouchable. But I see the cracks. The way his hands clench when I walk past. The way he watches me like I'm something he wants to devour. The way he stands outside my bedroom door at 3am like he's fighting a war with himself. He says our marriage is just business. Everything about him screams obsession. Then I discover the truth: Killian didn't just pay my father's debts. He created them. Bought out the loan sharks. Orchestrated my desperation. Trapped me so completely that I had no choice but to come to him. Because six months ago, Killian Archer saw me in a coffee shop and decided I was his. He doesn't do love. Doesn't do relationships. Doesn't let anyone close. But he'll manipulate me, bind me, cage me—make me want to stay even if it destroys us both. When I confront him, he doesn't apologize. Doesn't even pretend to feel guilty. "I take what I want, Isla. And I've wanted you since the moment I saw you." I should run. I try to run. But Killian's enemies are circling, and the most dangerous man in the city is somehow the safest place I've ever been. Then his rival kidnaps me to get revenge—and I watch Killian become something worse than a monster to get me back. I should be horrified by the violence. The darkness. The blood on his hands. Instead, I realize I'm falling in love with this beautiful, broken, obsessive man who would burn the entire world down before letting me be hurt. Our contract says eighteen months. But Killian Archer doesn't know how to let go. And I'm starting to think I don't want him to.

Adrien Laurent has everything except the one thing the court says a grieving child needs most: a family. After his younger brother’s death, Adrien becomes guardian to his four-year-old nephew, Noah. But when the court questions whether a cold, work-obsessed billionaire can raise a child alone, he is given sixty days to prove he can provide a stable home—or lose Noah forever. Elena Moreau, Noah’s therapist, believes children need warmth, not wealth. She clashes with Adrien from the moment they meet, and she refuses to be charmed by power, status, or his carefully controlled silence. Then Adrien offers her the one thing neither of them ever expected. Marriage. A temporary arrangement to protect Noah. Nothing more. But as Elena moves into the Laurent estate, she finds herself caught between family politics, media pressure, and a ruthless corporate battle led by Adrien’s ambitious uncle. What begins as a contract slowly becomes something far more dangerous: real attachment. Because in a house built on legacy and secrets, love may be the one thing neither of them can control.

Emma Carter never imagined that one accident would change her life forever. Forced into a contract marriage with the cold billionaire Alexander Knight, she finds herself trapped in a world full of secrets, jealousy, and danger. As their fake marriage slowly turns complicated, Emma discovers that Alexander’s past may destroy everything between them

Betrayed by her own family, Ye Ningwan is wed to the notorious “blind” warlord Zhan Hanjue—everyone expects her corpse to be carried out within days. Instead, three days later she struts back to the Ye gates draped in priceless gifts. Ye elders salivate; she smiles sweetly: “Only looking allowed—I’m taking these home. After all, you gave me zero dowry.” “Insolent!” they cry. Zhan Hanjue steps in, voice frosted steel: “She’s mine now. Protecting her is my pleasure.” Later, Ye Ningwan stammers, “You’re… not blind?” He tugs her close, whisper hot against her ear: “Play along, my queen, and I’ll give you the world—starting with my heart.”

She, the second daughter of the Bluen consortium, a figure of envy among the rich second generation. No matter who she mentioned, they were all figures that others flocked towards. However, her boyfriend was getting married, but she was not the bride. She, who had always been so noble and lofty, was cruelly abandoned. He, the CEO of Valence Group, the intimidating young master of the Horne family and a prime example of the rich second generation. Little did people know, his bride ran away on the day he planned to register for marriage. He too, was cruelly abandoned. Laughably so, He was her soon-to-be brother-in-law. Seeing her angry and lonely future brother-in-law, she suddenly jeered, "We both have been abandoned. We would make a perfect pair." He pursed his lips in silence. The next day, he took her to the Civil Affairs Office to go through the marriage registration process, having her replace her runaway sister as his bride. (Declaration of Ownership Chapter) "Julia, I now realize that I have always loved you. Do you know that I think of you all the time? I married her just so I could have a secure footing in the company." Her ex-boyfriend, gripping her hand, whispered this soft confession of his misguided actions in the past. Before she could react, a strong hand appeared out of nowhere, fiercely grasping her ex-boyfriend's wrist. He cried out in pain, causing a stir among the guests at the wine party. He stood by her side, one arm draped across her shoulders, gently and passionately smiling while saying, "Wife, tell him, who am I to you?" Gazing at his handsome appearance, noble aura, and two bodyguards following him, her ex-boyfriend's face quickly drained of color, as if he had just realized something. (Cherishing Her Chapter) "Young master, the young mistress said something strange today." The housekeeper, trailing behind him, was reporting her daily activities. "What did she say?" "The young mistress said she wonders if snow flying in June would be beautiful." The housekeeper finished his report and carefully observed his reaction. After all, how could it be possible for there to be falling snow in the scorching heat of June? Once again, he pursed his lips in silence, then silently went upstairs. The next day. As soon as she stepped out of the main house, she was stunned. The sunrise filled the high sky while the expansive courtyard was covered in white snow. It was a vast expanse of white, as if it were midwinter, and countless snowflakes were dancing in the sky. The snowstorm was of extreme beauty.

As everyone knows, He and she were childhood sweethearts, and he doted on her excessively. But on their engagement, she suddenly called off the wedding and went abroad for another man. His heart broke. Three years later, when she return to the country, her family faced bankruptcy, and she forced a marriage with him, causing a public outcry. Everyone waited to see her become a discarded wife, little did they know, he set a trap just to force her to come back and marry him.

Gu Xia, known as the Red Monster, had always been the quirkiest one among women. She had an extraordinary personality, exceptional job, and magic touch. Loving to play the fool to catch the wise, she had been causing chaos everywhere since her youth. One day, she was suddenly whisked away and married by a man called "Little Fox," thinking she would just swindle some money from this supposedly foolish son of a landlord. Little did she know, this son was not only smart, but he also deeply imprinted her with a 'Little Fox' of his own. This trick turned into a lifetime, leaving her with a heart so consumed and soul so corrupted she had nowhere to escape. The story features strong leads, both male and female, delivers a deadly dose of sweetness, and is a hilariously heartwarming tale of pampering! Also, highly recommended is the completed hit novel by Pigpig, "Youth Begins with Meeting Him."

She was framed by her sister and accidentally had a one-night stand with him. Later, he found various unreasonable excuses to force her to live with him. To seek revenge, she reluctantly agreed. "I...I thought you were gay!" She slowly retreated to the corner of the wall. "I thought you already knew the answer to that question that night," he said, emphasizing the word "that night". Later, to get a celebrity's headline news, she secretly sneaked into a grand engagement banquet. However... "Everyone, this is my fiancée." He said to the guests, holding her waist. Upon hearing this, her stepmother and sister were both stunned. With his help and her own efforts, she thought she was going to live a happy life. However, her company suddenly had a new boss... "You! You eat my food, live in my house, sleep with me, and how dare you deduct my salary!" "What about that night you slept with me and only gave me $50?" He said. She thought to herself: How could a billionaire be so petty about just $50! She would definitely divorce! Six years later... "Mommy! This uncle said he'll be our daddy if we pay him just $50! Should we get him?" "Mommy! I agree with that!"

Her first encounter with Qin Sijue is an unexpected one. While trying to hide from her pursuers, she accidentally barges into his changing room. Yet, their paths crosses again fatefully—after a fake marriage, she legally becomes his bride. She imagines that they will only interact before the agreement ends, after which they would have nothing to do with each other. However, Qin Sijue comes over with two red booklets—their wedding certificate. "Take them for an appraisal and see if they're real".

Recommended new novel: A heartwarming story set in the '90s, "Back to 1990, She Set the Surgical World on Fire" When Xie Wanying returned to 1996 and said she wanted to become a doctor, many laughed. "A phoenix begets a phoenix, a dog begets a dog. If a truck driver's daughter can become a doctor, then pigs can climb trees." "Not only do I want to be a doctor, but I also want to be a female thoracic surgeon," Xie Wanying declared. When medical relatives sarcastically told her, "There is not a single female leading thoracic surgeon in the country—who do you think you are!" After the college entrance exams, Xie Wanying entered the top surgical class in the country with the highest provincial science score, began as an intern in a top-tier capital hospital, and was fought over by the heads of surgery departments. She performed the world's first minimally invasive heart valve repair, marking the first surgery in the female surgical field! The Overseas Returnee Faction senior brother was a hot bachelor in the capital's circle and changed his QQ profile picture to one with his junior sister Xie. The young boss was a handsome man who came to the hospital every day to bring flowers and offer diamond rings. Not to mention the horde of well-wishers that had practically broken down the door of old Xie's house... —————— "No woman loves a man who's not a little bit bad." When a woman married him, everyone said, "This woman must be a bad woman who would stop at nothing to curry favor with him." Everyone was curious about what kind of person Mrs. Xiao was when they heard that Mr. Xiao had gotten married. "My wife has overshadowed me. Everyone knows she is deaf, so they blatantly speak ill of her in front of her and openly discuss the bad things they plan to do to her," Host: ............

Synopsis Five years ago, Ayesha’s heart was shattered by the man she loved the most. Without any explanation, Arian Khan disappeared from her life, leaving behind nothing but pain and unanswered questions. Trying to move on, Ayesha eventually agrees to a contract marriage with the cold and powerful billionaire CEO, Ryan Chowdhury. For Ryan, marriage is nothing more than a business deal. No love. No emotions. Just a contract. But just when Ayesha begins to accept her new life… Her past suddenly returns. Arian Khan is back. And this time, he refuses to let her go. Now Ayesha is trapped between her mysterious husband and the man who once broke her heart. But the truth she doesn’t know is far more dangerous… Because Arian never left her by choice. And Ryan Chowdhury is hiding a secret that could destroy all three of them. In a world of power, betrayal, and revenge… Who will Ayesha choose? Her past love… or her present husband?

She needed money. He needed control. When Elena Rossi’s world collapses under crushing debt and a family scandal she didn’t create, she is offered a lifeline she cannot refuse — a one-year marriage contract with Adrian Laurent, the youngest and most feared billionaire in the city. Cold. Calculated. Untouchable. To the world, it’s a strategic union between power and elegance. Behind closed doors, it’s a battlefield of pride, rules, and dangerous attraction. Three conditions define their marriage: No love. No jealousy. No breaking the contract. But desire has no respect for rules. As Elena steps into Adrian’s world of private jets, ruthless business wars, and whispered scandals, she realizes the contract hides more than financial motives. There is a secret clause — one that ties her fate to his in ways she never imagined. And Adrian? He never intended to fall. He only intended to possess. In a world where power is everything and vulnerability is weakness, two stubborn hearts must decide: Is this just a contract… or the beginning of an obsession neither of them can survive?

Aanya Lu is an innocent, hardworking girl with a soft heart and big dreams. A devoted lover of Korean and Chinese dramas, she secretly adores K-pop star Jungkook.”and believes that talent and honesty can change fate. What she doesn’t know is that her past is stained with blood. When she joins one of Shenzhen’s most powerful corporations, she catches the attention of Zain Yan— a flawless CEO in the eyes of the world… but in truth, a cold, broken, and dangerously ruthless man. Zain assigns her an important project and gradually pulls her closer. To Aanya, he is a strict but fair boss. To Zain, she is nothing more than a weapon of revenge. Years ago, on a night soaked in blood, Zain lost his mother and younger sister. The man responsible was Lu Kang— Aanya’s beloved uncle. Zain’s plan is simple: use Aanya to completely destroy Lu Kang. But fate has other plans. Aanya’s past is not as pure as it seems. Her ex-boyfriend, Ruan Jian—the man she once trusted as her support— walked away and shattered her heart without looking back. Then her innocence and hidden strength draw the attention of the underworld’s most feared ruler—the Dragon King. But the real question is… Why does the Dragon King want Aanya dead? And how is the secret of her birth connected to him? For the first time, Zain’s perfect plan begins to collapse. The girl he intended to use as a pawn… becomes the one he grows fiercely possessive of. He cannot tolerate anyone looking at his wife— not even the ghosts of her past. Amid bullets, betrayal, and bloodshed— Zain makes a shocking public move: A contract marriage. Now Aanya is trapped in a marriage she never chose, bound to a man full of secrets— a man who is both using her… and protecting her. Is she merely a pawn in his revenge? Or the only weakness of the Heartless Wolf? As buried truths rise, as the Dragon King’s true connection is revealed, and as Aanya finally learns why Zain chose her— It will not be just love or trust that breaks… …but the very cage imprisoning a wounded heart. .Note: I am a new writer, so there may be some small mistakes in my novel. Your love and support are my greatest strength.”. Insta id__ aarinya__ solen

Eimi Takahashi was born into a world of silk and power, the proud heiress of a Japanese business dynasty. But overnight, her world shatters. Betrayed by rivals and facing total bankruptcy, her family’s only hope lies in the hands of the Morettis—the most powerful and ruthless family in Italy. ​Lorenzo Moretti is willing to sign the check that saves her father, but he has one cold-blooded condition: Eimi must marry his son, Marco. ​Marco Moretti is a man of ice and stone. Three years ago, a bitter encounter left Eimi and Marco as sworn enemies. He views her as a spoiled princess; she views him as a heartless machine. They loathe the very ground the other walks on. ​The Contract is simple: ​One year of marriage. ​No physical intimacy. ​A perfect public performance of a "loving couple." ​After 365 days, a quiet divorce and a massive settlement. ​But when they are forced into seclusion at a private villa in Lake Como to satisfy Marco’s traditional grandfather, the lines between acting and reality begin to blur. Behind closed doors, their biting insults turn into scorching tension, and old secrets begin to surface. ​In a game of power where hearts were never meant to be part of the deal, who will be the first to break the contract?

Title: The Winter Contract Marriage Plot Idea: Characters: Mihir – A wealthy tech entrepreneur, strict and ruthless by nature. Ava – A young writer, full of dreams, but facing financial difficulties. Story: Ava’s family falls into serious trouble. Their business is on the verge of collapse. Mihir makes a proposal: a one-year contract marriage in exchange for financial support. At first, they both dislike each other and maintain a strictly “formal” relationship. But one day, Mihir saves Ava from a dangerous situation, and gradually, mutual understanding and affection start to develop between them. Before the contract ends, they realize that this relationship is no longer just a contract, but has turned into true love. Twist: On the day the contract is supposed to end, Mihir makes a surprising decision that leaves Ava completely delighted and amazed.

Natalia said with disgust: "Never. I would prefer death over loving the idea of marrying you." Cedric said in a mysterious and terrifying tone: "Die then." Cedric said cruelly: "Then you won't be able to die; that is what you will get, Natalia..." Then he lowered his voice to a terrifying hiss and continued: "Pain." Cedric looking at her sharply: "But we will play the role of the couple." Natalia answered, her eyes shining with defiance: "Even if it's acting, Cedric, you will not touch me." Cedric said in a voice as low as a hiss: "I will touch you if the matter requires it, do you understand?" ------------------------ Natalia is thrown into the furnace of a war she did not choose. With a single decision from her father, the ambitions of the eighteen-year-old girl were shattered, transforming into an eternal shackle. It is not merely a marriage, but a deed of ownership to ensure the empire remains safe through a strategic alliance, under the protection of the man whose very existence she loathes: Cedric, the son of her father’s most powerful business partner. A wedding without lights... and a wife in the shadows. Because she has not reached the legal age for the elite, and because scandal might shake the family walls, Natalia was sentenced to be a "Secret Wife." A marriage imprisoned behind the palace walls, forbidden from being circulated in the hallways of velvet society. Natalia finds herself forced to live in the Stuart family mansion, where she is compelled to share oxygen and space in one room with Cedric; the man who sees in this marriage an insult to his pride and an assassination of his freedom. Behind that closed door, the official masks fall, and the fires of hatred ignite. But the real hell for Natalia lies not only in Cedric’s cruelty, but in the presence of William; Cedric’s older brother and the person whose heart beat with love for him since her childhood. Now, Natalia finds herself trapped under one roof with the man she desired as a husband, while she is, in reality, the property of his brother whom she hates. Cedric... the cruel executioner. Cedric will not settle for silent rejection; instead, he will turn Natalia’s days into an organized "hell." Every look is a stab, every word is a spark, and every night they spend in that ill-fated room is a new round of psychological torture, where Natalia burns between the fire of her impossible love for William and the fire of her imposed hatred for Cedric.

These days, could one really time-travel just by dreaming? And to become a silly princess at that. Well, marrying a domineering man wasn't too bad. His taking a concubine wasn't the end of the world either. But why was she forbidden from liking anything except him? That was just too domineering! She had to escape! Ah, but upon escaping, she realized he was a half-demon who didn't understand love... and, moreover, a half-demon who had a three-lives connection with her...