His Contracted Bride

In the Huo family, the second son Huo Lin was called a death god, and the family's internal fights over control ran through everything. Ruan Niannian had been deaf for years and got her hearing back. The same day, she walked in on her fiancé Jiang Shenghuai with Jiang Shiyu, the woman who had caused her deafness. Her mother begged her to help: her sister Ruan Jiaojiao had run from an arranged marriage into the Huo family, and someone had to take her place. Ruan Niannian married Huo Lin under a one-year agreement. Huo Lin had worked out that she was the substitute before the wedding and said nothing. He shut down the rumours spreading about her at work, drove off Jiang Shenghuai when he kept coming back, and covered for her during the Huo family power struggle. Ruan Niannian had been left with damage from childhood and with fear of being close to anyone, and living alongside him wore some of that down.