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You and Geum Bayeol married for duty and agreed to stay out of each other's lives. Tonight, drunk and rambling in his study, you don't notice him falling.
You saved Terezia's capital and were promised a princess as reward. The court gave you No Naul, its disowned 'Cursed Princess,' and today you meet her.
You arrive as a political bride to the north's Ice Duke. He promises you will lack for nothing, and warns you not to want anything more than that.
Sakuren Saemoto married you for the sake of his family's business empire and keeps his distance, unsure how to act around a wife he never chose.
A stranger yanks you into an alley kiss to dodge his bodyguards. He is Pyo Ha-chan, a runaway conglomerate heir, and he is not finished with you yet.
An arranged marriage is saving your family's business. Howard Ingram Vance is just as unwilling as you, and just as blunt about it.
Your matchmaking with another ex-convict has failed again. Your supervisor, Kakifujita Hagiya, kneels in front of you and asks if you have any brains at all.
Your husband Torquil was never warm with you. Recovering from an accident, you find him tending his sick ex-girlfriend with real devotion.
An arrangement between your families forces you into marriage with Peter Stafford, who didn't want this any more than you did. Dinner starts cold.
You've never seen your royal fiance's face. He arrives disguised as your blind butler, Oboromori Renkyo, to test who you really are before revealing himself.
Your parents arranged this marriage. Days into living together, Ranida Ranya still answers only yes or no, and you want to know what's underneath the silence.
A sign in town promises a princess seeking suitors, strongest wins her hand. Alfina de Montreine has already sent famous heroes home half-dead for trying.
You are undercover police, posing as the wife of Singapore's most powerful mafia boss while hiding your real mission from him.
Himuro Nozomi, Third Prince and secret assassin, is your political fiancé. He comes home bloodied and barely looks at you.
Sean Sutton was forced into an arranged marriage with you and blames you for the lover he lost. Now he is burning with fever and refuses to let you near.
You married Nagimura Reo, the Ichijo heir, in a loveless contract marriage. Then you caught him staring at an old photo like it still hurts.
Nearly six months into a forced marriage, your husband Isidore Glenroy only wanted one thing from the deal: a child. Tonight he catches you reading.
Your family arranges a marriage meeting with the Caspian heir. You expect someone polished. You get Caspian Carrington, stammering and unable to meet your eyes.
Your father's debt sold you to a mafia boss twice your age. Two years later, he's cold to everyone but you, and tonight he's watching you read from the yard.
Duke Ham Ragil married you in an arranged match and shows open contempt, yet since learning you are pregnant, his coldness has turned strange.
You were Richard's late wife, Eleonora. Reborn as a princess from a kingdom he blames for her death, you sign a marriage contract he thinks is only politics.
Kiyoshi Hasumi is the perfect husband in public. In private, he's the one making you sick, then the one who comforts you as if he saved you from it.
Your three-year contract marriage to CEO Lu Chengyu ends today. He has signed the divorce, the movers are downstairs, and you are not waiting for him.
Vice President Ma Sareun just cut off every card in your name. Get them back, he says, by never asking for a divorce again.
Duke Rantazawa Kitsuyuki tells you plainly not to expect anything from this engagement. You were chosen out of duty, and duty is all he intends to offer.
Your fathers arranged this engagement years ago. Duke Nam's heir waited twenty minutes for tea while you played in the garden, and he is not pleased about it.
You're the Vulcan Empire's rumored tyrant. Princess Kakiaki arrives from a weaker kingdom to marry you and secure peace between your nations.
Duke Erich hates his political wife and adores noble lady Ilzena instead. Tonight he arrives covered in blood, having killed your maid on Ilzena's word alone.
Married off to the future emperor for his family's benefit, you face a husband who already despises the rumors written about you.
An AI matching app just forced you into marriage with a stranger. He turns out to be a grieving widower who apologizes before he even says his name.
Prince Kakinakazawa Shoyuki freezes everything he touches, and everyone in his kingdom keeps their distance. For some reason, his curse never reacts to you.
Your parents arranged your marriage to Shimokawa Oboro Mio. You share a house, dinner and a last name, and almost nothing else, because he barely looks at you.
Rika Mizushi has loved you since a stranger's funeral when you were both children, and waited years in silence to become a man worth collecting you.
A giant tanuki beastman named Suma Yanase falls for you in the town square and proposes on the spot. He is gentle, terrifying when crossed, and won't take no.
Your wedding to Crown Prince Amoi Mori Kiriaki was a political contract, and divorce is forbidden. He calls it duty. You call it a beginning.
Your sister fled her wedding to a feared mafia boss. Humiliated at the altar, Casper Ellsworth turns his cold gaze on you instead.
A stranger's one-night stand is screaming at Rento Sakaki in the street. He grabs you, a passerby, and calls you his girlfriend to make her leave.
Shoya Kakinakada married you for the company's sake and treats you with distance, yet gifts and cards arrive daily. Is he cold, or hiding it?
Duke Leopold Helm marries you for duty, not love, and warns you not to expect anything from a man still grieving his first wife.
Grand Duke Naenaol needs an heir, not a wife. You arrive as his stranger bride, and the Empire's coldest soldier has to learn to want more than duty.
Ignatius Foxworth just became your wife in a marriage neither wanted. Behind her veil she flips you off and warns that touching her uninvited costs you dearly.
Mioda Shonagi saved you from the suicide forest and hid you in her fox village, where every rescued human is claimed as a spouse.
You're sent in as a stand-in fiancée to Sumiji Hiiragihara, a zaibatsu heir with a brilliant mind and a personality built entirely out of ice.
You're the neighboring princess married into Alverre, to Prince Noel, who skipped the wedding and treats you as a burden.
You are the Yuwall heir forced into an arranged marriage with Ye Gaheun, the disgraced youngest son of a rival conglomerate who resents you on sight.
An AI service marries you to a stranger the moment it finds a match. Yours is Shoru Miojima, a taciturn special forces sergeant, and cohabitation starts today.
Two powerful families, likely mafia, are settling your marriage to Byron Doyle across a boardroom table. Neither of you wants it, and he will not look away.
A year into an arranged marriage, Brent Porter still loves Mei Lin. He asks you to give her your blood, not knowing you have hidden cancer for two years.