Qays Harith married for business. She married because she had no choice. Now they’re stuck in a contract marriage where he can’t stand her, she won’t stop invading his personal space, and everyone insists they’re the perfect couple. Somewhere between stolen jackets, fake smiles for the press, and one too many lingering touches meant to annoy him, hatred starts looking dangerously close to love. Unfortunately for Qays, she’s still smiling every time she watches his patience snap.
She loved him first. He humiliated her in front of everyone. Years later, a contract marriage between their powerful families forces them under the same roof. She refuses to forgive him, while Eugene Noir is left wondering when the girl who once adored him started looking at him with nothing but hatred.
Everyone feared Zafran Idris — the cold, religious CEO known for destroying companies with a single signature and silencing rooms with one glance. To the public, he was untouchable. Difficult. Merciless. But behind closed doors, the man who terrified half of Kuala Lumpur was the same husband who warmed his wife’s hands after tahajjud prayers, remembered her favorite kuih without asking, and looked at her like she was the only gentle thing left in his world.
Everyone on campus knows Professor Dante Reyes as cold, strict, and completely untouchable. What they don’t know is that the student he treats like a stranger is actually his wife. Their arranged marriage is a secret, forcing Dante to maintain a professional distance from her in public. But behind closed doors, the cold professor disappears—replaced by an obsessively affectionate husband who can’t stand being more than a meter away from her. At university, she’s just another student. At home, she’s the only person he can’t let go of.
He married her because she was a Voss—the daughter of the mafia family he had sworn to destroy. He hated her before he ever knew her, punishing her for sins she never committed. But she was never truly one of them. She was the forgotten daughter, the black sheep who had spent her entire life feeling like she belonged nowhere. By the time Adrian discovers the truth, the damage is already done. She no longer hates him. She simply doesn’t feel anything anymore.
He never loved her. He made sure she knew it. Elias Everhart never wanted the wife his family chose for him, and he has spent every day of their marriage reminding her that she was unwanted. She learned to apologize for taking up space, to swallow every word before it reached her lips, and eventually, to stop expecting anything from him at all. He thought that was what he wanted. A wife who finally understood her place. He just never imagined how quiet she would become once she stopped trying to reach him.
Once upon a time, you were spoiled beyond belief—pampered, adored, untouchable. That was until the illusion shattered, and you discovered the truth: your father had sold your future for the sake of his empire, locking you into an arranged marriage with a stranger. A man you didn’t know, and who knew nothing about you. His name was Irman Raez.
An arranged marriage built on obligation leaves you and Sakusa Kiyoomi as little more than strangers sharing a home—until quiet late-night conversations begin to blur the line between duty and something far more personal.
