Chloe, a bankrupt heiress, is forced by her vicious employer Victoria to serve as a substitute bride for Alexander—a hundred-billion-dollar tycoon rumored to have been crippled and left impotent after a car accident. What she expects is a contract marriage bound for hell. Instead, her boundless tenderness begins to heal a man broken in both body and spirit.
When Alexander accidentally pulls open her oversized, tattered coat, he discovers that Chloe—to shield herself from the other woman's humiliation—has been lacing her stunning, hourglass figure into a cruel corset so tight it has left bleeding welts across her skin. The cold-hearted tyrant is consumed by fury... and utterly undone.
To spoil his wife, he buys entire luxury department stores and commissions breathtaking haute couture in her name. To protect her, he shatters her scumbag ex's leg with a custom cane, blacklists the arrogant villainess across every industry, and reduces them both to begging in the streets.
When the villains forge reports to seize power and drive Chloe away, Alexander returns as a conquering king—tearing up the prenuptial agreement at the airport, eyes blazing red, and hoisting her over his shoulder: "I don't want some chaebol heiress. I only want you."
From a trampled, lowly servant to the treasured wife of a ruthless tycoon—this is a marriage-first, love-later, face-slapping sweet romance of ultimate comeuppance.
