Kissed Pizza Guy Got an Empire

Manhattan high society socialite Chloe has just lost her mother; her ruthless father Arthur immediately freezes all of her trust fund, and holding her gravely ill grandmother's medical funds hostage, forces her to marry before she turns 25 to Brandon, a reckless playboy of dubious reputation, in order to seize control of the core assets worth ten billion listed in her mother's will. Cornered, Chloe discovers a legal loophole in the will: if she gets legally married before turning 25, she can activate the trust fund on her own and escape her father's control. In a fit of desperation and rage, she publicly and forcefully kisses Sebastian, a poor young man who just happened to deliver a pizza to her home, and takes him straight to City Hall for a lightning-fast marriage. Kicked out of the house, Chloe thinks she is facing a life of hardship with her delivery driver husband, unaware that Sebastian is actually the sole heir to the Sterling family, which controls the levers of the entire United States economy; delivering pizzas was only an undercover mission to gather grassroots business intelligence. Facing the classist rejection of her malicious stepsister, the business war waged by her resentful ex-boyfriend, and the conspiracies of high society, Sebastian acts from the shadows: with a team of elite lawyers and a hundred billion in capital, he crushes the vi