Novels Tagged 'Marriage of Convenience'

Sirens: a name derived from an ancient creature, used to describe those who could charm, lure, control, and heal others by singing.Subjected to live the life of a siren, Aria had experienced, seen, and heard many horrific things. Broken beyond repair, Aria resigned herself to death, when suddenlyThe Grand Duke, Lloyd Cardence Valentine, arrived and whispered, "Should I kill everyone here?""If you need me, just call me. Your song will always reach me, wherever you are."In the end, Aria called the devil, bringing death to all those present, along with herself."Let's fall down to hell together."And with that, Aria breathed her last and died only to return to her 10-year-old self.Now that she had a second chance at her life, Aria was determined to change her fate, as well as the cruel fate of her saviour, Grand Duke Valentine.And so Aria proposed to him with a marriage contract.She sold her soul to the devil and vowed to protect him.[Marry me.] Aria extended her hand and gave him the contract. [Let's get divorced in 10 years]The young duke took the contract from her hand."So, where should I stamp the seal?"* * *"You said you'd divorce me within 10 years."The grown-up villain leaned in, hovering his head before he kissed her tenderly over her crown."Now that we're adults, we should sign another contract."

I fell in love. Her name was Shirasaka Yukino. I could only look at her from a distance. However one day I heard that she already had a boyfriend. Even if I love her, I can't have her. The devil sent me an invitation. I can make her mine!

Seria, a social outcast, has changed.Seria Stern, the wicked woman who made everyone tremble with fear, was now calm.In fact, she wasn't just changed, she was a completely different person.The moment she realized that she had possessed the body of the villain Seria, in a romance novel, she had a hunch about the future and decided to live low.She would avoid kidnapping and harassing the original heroine, hence preventing her death by decapitation at the hands of Kalis, the second male lead.In order to avoid that, she had to fix her bad relationship with Kalis and even healed his injured arm.Thanks to that she got engaged with him, so it's all worked out.Finally, the original heroine returned, and her husband, Lesche, should be on good terms with her now."I've been waiting to escort her, so"Lesche asked, resolutely cutting off Kalis' words. "Miss Seria, it would be better for you to choose. With whom would you want to go with?"Something was strange.The original, wasn't it perfectly fine?

"You might be my wife, but I shall not lay a hand on you.""Is that so? Then can I lay my hand on you?""Pardon?"***Around 20 years in the future, the world is destroyed due to the invasion of demons. There's only one way to prevent the destruction.Marry the Duke known as the Monster and give birth to his child who will grow up to be the future warrior."Mielle, that marriage, I'll do it instead."Yelena, who saw the future,decided to get married to the Monster Duke and give birth to his child to save the world, however"Are we going to keep being idle like this?"She thought she would be able to get it over and done with (?),but her husband's impregnable fortress-like defenses are beyond imagination!"I told you to strip! Why aren't you stripping?! Is it a part of your skin?"Can Yelena safely give birth to the warrior and save the world in the end?

Liam Sera Banfield is a reincarnator.He was reincarnated into a fantasy universe of swords and magic, but at a time that civilization was already making advancements into outer space.The setting takes place in an intergalactic empire, a space opera-like universe where humanoid weapons and spaceships do battle.Liam, who had incarnated into an aristocratic family in a monarchic society, has the ambition to one day become an evil lord.In his previous life, Liam had unfortunately lost everything and died in despair. It's foolish to live for others. I will live for myself.Holding those feelings in his chest, he starts towards his second life, but is instead worshipped as a virtuous ruler from his difference in values.Will Liam be able to safely become an evil lord?

The daughter of a duke, the stuttering Maximilian, married a knight of lowly status at her father's coercion.After their first night, her husband departed for an expedition without another word.He comes back three years later, this time as a famous knight in the whole continent.How would Maximilian face him on his return?

Elena, who spent her entire life as a cold-blooded female knight to avenge her family, ended up dying without claiming her revenge. When she opened her eyes she found that she went back into the past. By day she was a lady in a dress, and at night she carried a sword to change history and prevent her family's destruction.

"You shouldn't have crossed this line, Elisha, if you didn't want it to be like this."A sturdy arm wrapped around her swaying body. Her head became hazy and an intentional hot sweet sigh was pulled out of her.How the hell did I get myself in this situation'Elisha recalled. This never happened before.Yeah, I remember.'Her future in which she would become the fake concubine to a demonic man from the same family, and would be eaten to deatheven down to her bone marrow. A future in which the Cartier ducal family is embroiled in a power struggle and fragmented.To avoid that future, Elisha threw herself at Lucerne, the archrival of her former life.Yeah. There was no problem. She knew this man, before and after her regression. She already knew he was the most notorious maniac in the Empire.20-year-old Elisha owes 30,000 gold coins (about 15 billion won in Korean currency or around 15 million in USD).After going back in time, in order to avoid a hellish life because of debt, she becomes the most capable illegitimate child in the world and visits Lucerne, the archenemy of her master. "What do you want from me?""Please lend me some money. And make me your subordinate. I'll give you all the information I have.""Why should I trust you?""I'll give myself up as collateral."Lucerne listened to Elisha and watched her quietly."Okay. But I decide how to deal with the collateral."".""First of all, marry me."" huh?"Elisha didn't expect it either. That her information transaction would become a marriage contract.

Upon waking up, Ruan Xia had transmigrated into a webnovel that she had stayed up all night to finish reading. She had become the villain's mother. In the novel, after the death of her first husband, the original owner of the body had hooked up with a Mr. Perfect at the fastest possible speed. Worried and discontent that her son from her first marriage would become a burden on her, she heartlessly abandoned her son.Having once held the best quality script and informed of future events, Ruan Xia looked at her still alive first husband as well as her future villain son. She sighed. She wanted to apply for a different script!

I reincarnated as the wife of the cursed archduke in my own twisted novel.As the author, I have a responsibility to fix this novel.I have lifted the curse, which is the main problem of this story.I thought my job was done. But when I was trying to go back, the archduke asked me,"Did you really think I wouldn't know that you're planning on returning to your fiance?"My fiance?'What I'm gonna do? He completely misunderstood the situation!All I want is for him to please let me go home!

Rihannan Alessin, a queen rotting in prison.Despaired and without hope, she drank poison and died. But unbeknownst to her, the deity gave her a second chance at life. She was twelve again. And this time, she would live life differently.Six years later, she chooses to become Arundell's queen"If you're asking me to step down from the marriage proposal, I can't.""Marry me and let us divorce after a year."And this time, the time limit of their marriage would last a year.A husband she knew who was different than before she tried not to love him again, but each time, her heart kept shaking.

Lucia grew up not knowing she was a princess.

Navier was the perfect empress, however, the Emperor wanted a wife, not a colleague. And so, the Emperor abandoned Empress Navier and placed an ens*aved girl beside him. That was fine until Navier heard the Emperor promise the s*ave the Empress' position. After many ups and downs, Navier decided she would accept being the Queen of the neighbouring country and remarry.

At eighteen years old, Lin Qingyu was married as part of a Chong Xi into the Nan'an Hou Mansion, becoming the ill Lu Wancheng's male wife.On the eve of their wedding, Young Master Hou lay lazily on the bed and said, "Beauty, to be honest, I really don't want to engage in domestic struggles. I just want to drift along, eat and wait to die. I want to be a salted fish."A year later, Young Master Hou became gravely ill. He took Lin Qingyu's hand and sighed, "Wife, I'm going to die, but I think I can continue to transmigrate. In order for you to properly recognize me in the future, let us set a secret code."After the death of Young Master Hou, Lin Qingyu was prepared to stay a widow all his life. Unexpectedly, after only half a year, the great general who had rendered outstanding military service, actually came to propose marriage.Lin Qingyu would rather die. But the general said but one statement, "If odd, change; if even, remain the same?"Lin Qingyu: "I will marry you."After two years, the general died in battle. Before Lin Qingyu even had time to grieve, he was recruited into the palace by the Emperor.The emperor complained aggrievedly, "Baobei, this time I have became the Emperor. My salted fish dreams have been completely shattered"Lin Qingyu knew that although his husband was a bag of lazybones, no one was his equal when it came to conspiracy and schemes.He rubbed the Emperor's head. "Don't think about it. Get started on those reports. Behave yourself."

I want to travel to a place unknown to the many'It was a passing wish to the weary and tired Eugene and she'd not think it'd ever come to pass but it did.She opened her eyes and found she was sent to a novel-like world she wrote in passing and became Jin Anika, the scorned queen notorious for her ruthlessness and undeserving of her status.Queen Jin only sought and desired to see the destruction of this world the villainess who met her untimely and miserable end at the hands of her husband, Kasser, the reigning king of the Fourth Kingdom.While struggling to survive in the unknown world, King Kasser visited Eugene and demanded that a contract be fulfilled and come to fruition."Three years ago, we made a deal."It turns out the Queen was under a contractual marriage with King Kasser. The ultimate price? To bear him a child."A a child?""Yes, my successor."

"Marry me under the conditions that we will divorce in 5 years."

Her husband, Derrick Vaisil, who had a funeral four days ago, suddenly came back to life. But this man was so different from before he died!"I'm hungry, wife."From regularly turning up in the dining room that he had always avoided,"How about we use the same bedroom?"To a furtive suggestion of combining their bedrooms that they had always been using separately.What in the world happened to this man?*"You always give off this delicious smell. but how can I bear with it?"Right now, at this moment, Judith felt like he was a cruel predator who would completely devour her from head to toe easily."You, uh, what the hell are you?"He, who tormented her as he repeatedly sucked on her soft earlobe and put his tongue inside her ear, chuckled."What am I?"Derrick kissed her chin and whispered languidly."I am your husband, Judith."

A 23-year old man who graduated Harvard flew back to his home country to sell fried goat meat in his self-made small stall, representing a conservative generation of youth. He went to a bar looking for a girl to settle his lust and found a drunken beauty.They spent a wild night with each other, and the girl coldly and silently left in the morning in front of the guy's face, leaving a small red stain on the bed sheet. After a few days, she forced him to marry her for 2 years by contract, and after the contract expires he's free to do what he wants. She later revealed to him she's the CEO of one of the biggest corporation in the country.Will a girl with the burden of a giant corporation with her own emotional scar be able to find love and to share the person she loves with other beauties?Will a man who lived to kill his entire life, with the burden of being Hades, one of the 12 gods of Olympus, be able to set aside his responsibilities to live with the girl(s) he loves or to improve his godly skills to protect everything he cares for from an unseen threat?

The daughter of a duke, the stuttering Maximilian, married a knight of lowly status at her father's coercion.

I became a side-character who died in anguish because of her good-for-nothing husband.If I can't avoid getting married, why don't I change who I marry instead?"Excellent, marriage sounds good.""Wise choice. Then let's have a wedding ceremony that isn't too ceremonious. Following that, I'll need you to go down to the Fief and behave like the lady of the house until I call for you. Naturally, there won't be any time to spend in leisure whilst dousing yourself in luxuries.""I'm not marrying you, but your father instead.""Pardon?""I'm not going to marry you. Do you have a problem with that?"

The daughter of a duke, the stuttering Maximilian, married a knight of lowly status at her father's coercion.After their first night, her husband departed for an expedition without another word.He comes back three years later, this time as a famous knight in the whole continent.How would Maximilian face him on his return?

Pei Jin is a black bellied prince. To outsiders he is a kind gentleman and always calm.

When Su Yaya awakened, she found herself in a novel world as the CEO's Substitute Wife-a mere cannon fodder. Knowing that divorce and a tragic ending was awaiting her once her look-alike, the President's first love returns, Su Yaya only trusted one thing: Money.She curried favor with her husband each day, saved up resources, and served him as a faithful wife. It was better to leave a good impression on him before separation so she could avoid her death flags.The overbearing President was very satisfied with her and personally gave her his platinum card: "Take it and buy anything you'd like!" Su Yaya happily accepted. Of course she would take advantage of his pampering before the female protagonist appears!As the CEO unexpectedly falls deeper despite this transactional relationship, he never imagined that his wife would one day disappear from his side. - Description from Novelupdates

When waking up, Jiang Tian found out that it was not too late.In his previous life, Jiang Tian was a member of Jiang family in Jinling. He suffered a disgrace that was his fiancee broke off the pledge of marriage, so he had to marry into the Zhao family. Although Zhao Xueqing, his wife was the first beauty in Hangzhou, he always beat and scolded her. A few years later, he went through a family upheaval, and his loved ones died one after another. With despair, guilt and hatred, Jiang Tian jumped from a cliff. But he did not die. Instead, he started a cultivation journey for as long as ten thousand years in another space.He became the supreme god, but he died in the process of opening up the universe. With the regret for his parents and the guilt for Zhao Xueqing, Jiang Tian, who retained several thousand years of memory, swore that he would never let his loved one suffer any grievances and injuries this time! - Description from Novelupdates

This story takes place in Modern China. However, no matter how much things change, in the depths of society, a secret world of syndicates and hidden factions exist.Yang Chen, a graduate from Harvard who is fluent in English, French, Italian, and German to list a few. He is also capable of fighting and a number of practical skills. Yet he chose to go on the streets to sell fried mutton skewers for a living.Lin Ruoxi is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar companyYu Lei International. This company is one of the leaders in the cosmetic and fashion industry. Despite being only 20 years old, her ice-cold demeanor and beauty are well-known and unrivaled in Zhonghai City.Due to a wild night consisting of a lot of liquor, fate has brought them together to become husband and wife.And with that, the story begins! - Description from novelupdates

Blue sky, white clouds, lazily lying on the beach, while feeling the gentle breeze coming from the sea. Hounds at the side with marine animals chasing each other around. Cups of unrivaled wine from his personal winery with cuts of prime A grade steaks readily around. For others, life is all about pursuing money, power, and fame, but for Jiang Hai, this type of lifestyle is what he constantly dreamed of. - Description from Novelupdates

He is the emperor of the business world. Rumor has it that he was fond of men and because of this, Song Wen Xin agreed to marry him.After their marriage, he proved to her that he has the ability of a normal man!"You are not allowed to hide when fulfilling the obligation of husband and wife. You are also not allowed to refuse the gifts that I send you. And, when you take the initiative to come to me you are not allowed to stop!" He ordered her overbearingly.Song Wen Xin immediately said: "In your dreams!"He laughed enigmatically: "What a coincidence! I'm best at making a dream into a reality!"He dotes on her, dotes on her with no bottom line at all - Description from Novelupdates

Gu Shishi, a master of traditional Chinese painting, transmigrated into the role of a cannon fodder in a clich novel.The cannon fodder female supporting character was switched at birth. She had barely spent a few days with her biological parents before she was tossed into the wolf's den by those same parents. Her parents, having no heart to send their fake daughter with a heart disease to live a hard life, forced the real daughter into becoming the replacement. Gu Shishi was sent away to marry the big villain the rumored evil, cruel, and wife-cursing first young master of the Huo's.On the very first day that she had transmigrated, she had to face her fated tragic death.Luckily, she had also inadvertently discovered the path to altering her fate! The more gifts she received from the big villain, the longer she could live and the more cheats she would gain!System:(Wealthy Housewife System, Initiated!)(Remaining Life: 8 minutes and 56 seconds)(Recharge to extend your life.)(Method of Recharging: Receive Money or Valuables from Wealthy Husband.)(Received DIOR Bobbin Net Smock x 1, recharge value: $15,000!)(Received FENDI Black Hooded Sweater x 1, recharge value: $10,160!)(Received Givenchy Single Strap Mini Floral Print Pleated Skirt x 1, recharge value $180,695!)(Recharge Successful!)(Note: 24 hours additional life for every $1,000.) - Description from Novelupdates

After transcending to a new world, Ye Xuan miraculously obtained the Swallowing System.Not only could it swallow everything (wink wink nudge nudge), it could also extract bloodlines, martial arts, godly weapons, medicinal pills, treasures"This (beer) is way too strong! Don't challenge me! Do you believe that I can't swallow your divine swords?" - Description from Novelupdates