Contract marriage stories you can play
Contract and arranged marriage puts two people who didn't choose each other into the closest relationship there is, which makes every ordinary domestic moment loaded with a question neither of them planned to ask: is this just an arrangement, or is it turning into something real. Playing it interactively means you decide how your character treats the terms, formal and distant, or quietly curious about the person you're bound to.
This collection covers business marriages, political matches, fake-dating gone real and family-arranged engagements. Scenes tend to open at the start of the arrangement, a wedding, a first shared apartment, the terms being laid out, so you can play the whole arc from strangers-by-contract to a bond neither of you signed up for.
Stories in this collection
Your sister was supposed to marry the feared mafia boss Zeno Stokeleigh. She was the favorite, so they sent you instead, and his arms are already around you.
Seven years into an arranged marriage with mafia boss So Daheun, you stare at your wedding photo while he walks in reeking of blood and someone else's perfume.
Clint Arden is a feared Italian mafia boss and your husband by arrangement. You walk into his home office, and the ruthless man looks up: "Yes, love?"
Married off to mafia boss Reid Prentice, you share a silent first night while his scarred back stays turned toward the wall.
Lancelot Midsomer kidnapped you from a garden and now holds a gun to your head at the altar, demanding you marry him tonight.
Your parents announce your engagement to Leander Marsh, the enemy you have fought for years, to seal an alliance between two powerful families.
Two days' notice, then marriage to Blake Holme, your enemy since childhood. Now you live in his mansion, and he says the marriage is only for show.
Your father sold you into marriage to clear the family debt. It is your wedding day, and your new husband is Drew Kerr, a cold mafia stranger.
Baek Geon-o is ice-cold to his political wife by day, then sneaks into her bed as a black panther every night to cuddle.
Hwang Taesan, a construction chairman used to buying anything he wants, offers you 500 million won to date him. You already turned him down once.
Forced into marriage with Spanish mafia boss Kyle Bowen, you ride beside your cold new husband at 2 AM. You can have anything you want, except his attention.
Married to Geomwoo boss Hakateun for six months, a pure business deal until his jealousy shows. Tonight he drapes his jacket over you: cover up.
Married off to Lionel Nash, a towering CEO who calls himself Sebastian, you live with a husband who stayed ruthless and cold, until he fell first.
Two feuding families end their war with your wedding. Clara walks the aisle in white, beautiful and close to tears, forced into marrying you.
Two years married, and Karim Elshad still won't touch you. At your first real dinner together, he tells you exactly what he wants: your absence.
You just married Damian Blackwood, the boy you've hated since childhood. The press calls it a fairy tale merger. The wedding night says otherwise.
Sent to Sorathis for a political marriage, you visit the Nix family, and their frail eldest daughter Himasa Yodoto decides on sight that you are her destiny.
It's almost 4 AM when your husband Guk Sabom finally comes home, cigarettes in hand, and walks straight past you into his room.
At the altar, Leon Palmer trades his vows for a promise to hate you. He blames you for the accident that killed your sister, his fiancée.
Millionaire Hayward fell for you at first sight, and now Eleanor arrives at your home to formally propose an arranged marriage.
Kiribe Oboro was your warmest childhood friend before something broke between you. Married now for family reasons, his cold front hides feelings he won't admit.
Your spy cover is blown in minutes. Assassin Shioka Tsugumi skips killing you and proposes marriage instead, then starts doting on you like it's real.
You remember dying as the villainess in the novel you once read. Engaged to Fuchiya Tonagi, fated for another woman, you fight to rewrite the ending.
Your husband Desmond Fenwick keeps his distance in your arranged marriage. Tonight a small cut sends him rushing to your side, cold mask cracking.
Married off by your father to Heath Walsh, a cold 35-year-old billionaire with mafia ties, you wake alone in his enormous bedroom with no memory of the night.
Everyone knows the Crown Prince has never wanted the same woman twice. Somehow he still leaves a rose at your door every single night.
You've come to Solatis for an arranged political marriage. Noble lady Fuchioka Hinoki stands alone at the banquet, cold-voiced and unreadable.
You are Empress in name only. Emperor Gil Baul seats his concubine Na Bawat on his lap in front of you and makes you watch him choose her over you.
Sakiyuki has bullied you since childhood, and now you are engaged to him. You arrive at his house planning to end it, and he is not going to let that happen.
You are a merciless mafia boss married by arrangement to Maren Brennan, the sweetest person alive. Tonight you storm home in the rain and walk right past her.
Karen Valder leads a medieval mafia family and was raised to feel nothing. You're the wife arranged marriage gave him, and he doesn't know what to do with you.
Eighteen and already married off to the heir of a rival gang family. Kwak Dagyeol calls the marriage meaningless, but he still burns if anyone touches you.
You just married Prince Gilbert, the man your kingdom fought a war against. He tells you the marriage is only a formality and walks out of your shared room.
A century of war between humans and elves ends with your wedding to Bastian Blackwell, the cold, guarded Moonflower Princess.
Ralph Upshaw kidnapped you from a garden. Now he's shot the priest, leveled a gun at your head, and wants you to sign and wear his ring.
Kidnapped and unable to speak, you dial your arranged marriage husband Conrad Fleming. What he hears next changes everything about how he sees you.
One torn passport turns your Dubai trip into a marriage to Omani magnate Rashid Al-Naim, and tonight you broke his curfew by two hours.
You're eighteen, two months into an arranged marriage to CEO Percival Okehampton, twenty-eight and rarely home. Tonight he returns early and finds you awake.
You are about to marry Paolo Gentile, and the first thing you hear him call you, through a door, is a useless trophy wife.
At your own birthday ball, your husband Julien Voclain waltzes with his childhood friend first. Your marriage was arranged; his affection is a performance.
Wi Yunwon secretly bankrupted your family to make you marry him, and now keeps you devoted, watched and gently caged at home.
You are already the Grand Duchess, married by arrangement to Myeong Dawat. He wins every war he fights and greets you like a stranger at home.
Your first day on the job, President Kakigamimura Ogika offers a three-year fake marriage: full salary, separate rooms, and zero feelings involved.
Your CEO offers double your holiday bonus if you pretend to be his girlfriend for the holidays. Baek Doha never asks for favors, only proposes deals.
You are the mute princess married to a duke who despises you. Sneaking into his room to warn him of a plot, he pins you down, certain you are an assassin.
You married a Mafia boss in an arranged match you barely agreed to. Slap Eldric Yalding's chest in front of his men, and he only worries about your hand.
You're married to Prince Nagisahara Yodonagi for a political alliance. He stumbles home drunk at dawn and wakes you like you're the one he missed.
A stranger's call offers two billion won to marry Hyeonje Group's ice-cold Head Director, Hyeong Agil. You have never dated. Now you make him fall for you.
How to choose
Check whether the Story frames the arrangement as businesslike or already tense with attraction; both work, but they call for different early replies. Keep your character's guard up at first if you want the eventual warmth to feel earned, and use the setup to decide how much say your character had in the deal.