Contract marriage stories you can play

You're a fallen noblewoman striking a marriage deal with an Emperor who feels nothing. He'll give you power, a throne, anything except feelings.

You came for a harvest festival village tour. Custom says the chief marries whoever shows up that day, and Ran'izawa Ransetsu has already decided you're his.

You are undercover, posing as the husband of spy Kuritamura Kusuka to monitor her. In public you're newlyweds, behind closed doors it's surveillance.

Your husband has called five times waiting outside your office. He married you for love at first sight, and you have never once let him past friendly.

Married to Prince Shiooka Shōkyō for the alliance, you're branded a spoiled villainess by rumors that have nothing to do with who you are.

Mateo returns from a three-month campaign and brings home a woman he can't stop watching. You're his duchess of five years, and Johanna wants your place.

Five years ago you and Galmawat agreed to a clean five-year marriage, then a clean split. Today you bring the papers. He rips them up and refuses.

Your wife Kakitagishi Shoyama is the perfect homemaker by day. At 4 AM, alone with her coffee, she is a top spy on a mission that is you.

Fox yokai Takamine Konji threw tantrums for three days about marrying a tanuki he'd never met, until the moment he actually saw you.

Drake, the North's cold Grand Duke, has killed you eight times in nine loops. You wake married to him again, remembering every death this time.

Your CEO texts you at 3 a.m. asking you to his apartment. He answers in sweatpants, locks the door, and offers thirty million dollars for a year of marriage.

Your husband, Crown Prince Madaul, had you burned as a witch. You wake up a year earlier, still only his fiancee, with time to do this differently.

You married Yeom Madil to atone for his father's death. He hates you for surviving, and he married you only to watch you break.

Crown Prince Darian trampled your handkerchief and told you to get out of his sight. Then an arrow took your life in front of him, and he regressed to fix it.

Trying to escape the Crown Princess selection, you climb a palace wall and land straight in the arms of Crown Prince Han Seungyun.

On your wedding day, Crown Prince Severin tells you plainly: he only needs a Crown Princess who performs her duties, nothing more.

You married Tak Abeun by her family's decree, but she still treats you only as the guard walking a step behind her, not as a husband.

Sun Gabeun, a towering yakuza chairman, married you as the price of a truce. Now he flees every night, terrified he might accidentally hurt you.

Han Seung-woo, your chaebol husband who never touches alcohol, stumbles home past two in the morning, undone and spoiling for round two of your fight.

You can suddenly see everyone's affection level as a color above their head. Your husband, Prince Valerio, starts at negative one thousand.

A public matching app marries you to Reiji, the section chief everyone at your office calls a demon, the instant you meet at city hall.

Iain Grayling fought her parents' arranged marriage for months, certain she would get some old, rich bore, until she actually saw you.

You are the Princess of Gardia. Your secret feelings for Oborono Teiko reached the King, and now you are married to the man who already loved someone else.

You married the Crown Prince for the Empire's stability. He has never once looked at you the way he looks at your younger sister.

You asked Valen for a divorce. His answer wasn't the indifference you expected, it was a possessiveness he'd been hiding for years.

Your arranged marriage turned unexpectedly warm, then war took your husband for years. Now you're terminally ill, and he still doesn't know.

Lavender Village forces every adult to marry within a month. Village Head Do Gabit has one week left and a fake consent form hiding a marriage contract.

Political marriage, a fiancé who calls love worthless, and a hidden reason: Sumiya Umemiya is protecting you from enemies neither of you can name aloud.

Your family's ruin buys you a marriage to Frontier Count An Nakamura Hagizuki, the bandaged "monster" everyone fears. He orders you to keep your distance.

Roderic Lympstone forced you into this marriage and cannot stop watching you. Come home late tonight and feel exactly how far his devotion reaches.

Sold into marriage to Heukrim Suho, leader of the Red Oni clan, you arrive at his estate to a husband who barely looks at you.

Coworker Shoaki Kakinakamori proposes marriage to dodge the new bachelor tax, purely for the money, and picked you because you seemed better than the rest.

Your family forced you into marriage to fix your image. No Gasol needed a wife just as badly. Tonight, at a banquet full of cameras, the act nearly slips.

Nagioka Nagito waits for you every night in a quiet traditional house, ready to draw your bath and ease the weight of your day.

Three years engaged to First Prince Naru Saegami, and he's told his own butler he can't stand you. You refuse to let this end quietly.

You're sent to marry the Third Prince everyone calls broken. Kurifujita Sakumi was never ill, only silenced, and the carriage ride home is your first test.

A princess used to being adored, you married Prince Ichijou Tsukimiya after one meeting. He has been cold since, like he can't stand you.

Your family arranged your marriage to Major Miohashi Shōsō, the army officer everyone calls the cold oni. He calls you beautiful.

King Albrecht locks the door and tells you plainly why you were brought to his chamber: only your bloodline can break the curse on his kingdom.

You married the Grand Duke everyone expected to fall for your sister. Do Na-won is cold to you, tender to her, and you're supposed to share his house.

H Holdings needed a scandal to hide behind. Your marriage to heir Yeo Gateun was the cover story, and its penalty clause is 30 billion won.

At nineteen, King Richard's favorite daughter, you're ordered to marry the aged, widowed Duke of Suffolk, Wallace Aldrich, whose devoted heart is already yours.

You're the seventh Divine Bride, cuffed by fate to a god who calls you honey. Ogimi Kakiida never wanted this marriage either, and she won't admit it.

You divorced Alfred Moss while carrying his child. Leaving a Seoul hospital with snow in the forecast, you hear him say your name behind you.

Your sister fled her royal marriage, so you're forced to wed cold Prince Sakunagi in her place, not knowing the whole escape was his plan.

You're a fox spirit who lied your way out of a hunter's trap by claiming to be a gumiho. A year later, that lie has become a marriage you can't escape.

Nagisano Orimio is a cold, exacting husband who demands flawless housework. What you don't see is the screaming internal monologue about how cute you are.

Han Mujin married you as a business decision. Seven weeks into your pregnancy, his body started throwing up on your behalf, and he is furious about it.