After the Substitute Marriage, the Cold-Faced CEO…

The wedding had just ended when Shen Qingci came face to face with the truth behind the rumors—her husband, Gu Tingchen, the head of the Gu Group, was every bit as cold as the outside world claimed, like a block of ice. The words he tossed out as he turned and walked out of the bridal chamber cut sharper than the chill wind of an autumn night. But Shen Qingci was no weak-willed woman to be pushed around. The humiliation of being forced into this marriage by her family, the bitterness of her ex-boyfriend's betrayal—these had long since ground her into something just as cold and hard as stone. She watched the door slam shut and a smile that no one could read tugged at the corner of her lips. This marriage, a transaction in name, had stirred a dormant hunger for control deep within her—as for who would end up controlling whom, that was still anyone's guess.