Secret Love Is Addictive: Mr. Lu's Long-Planned S…

On a winter night in the city by the sea, a trending topic ignited the fuse of a marriage scandal. Everyone assumed Lysander Whitmore would seize this chance to rid himself of his arranged wife, whose heart still belonged to a past lover. The Jiang family parents paced restlessly, the tension so thick you could wring it out of the air. It wasn't until the door was pushed open and Lysander Whitmore stepped into the Jiang family's living room, carrying the chill of the night with him. He was supposed to come demanding answers, but when his deep, piercing eyes swept over Vivienne Ashford huddled in the corner of the sofa, the frozen lake cracked—a fracture only she could read. He didn't mention divorce. Instead, the first words out of his mouth were to cover for her, casually dismissing that secret meeting as "a task he had assigned." This marriage, it seemed, was much more than just a contract on paper.