Her Fiancé

Everyone in Seoul's high society knows Yu Xiao Fang — the spoiled, vicious daughter of the Yu family, a girl who breaks toys and hearts with equal carelessness. Fewer remember that she has been engaged since childhood to Wang Lei Lei, the cold, untouchable heir of the Wang Corporation, a man rumored to be carved out of ice and money.

In her first life, Xiao Fang treated that engagement as a cage. She divorced the fiancé she never bothered to love, humiliated her family, and ran into the arms of a charming liar named Hong Yan Xun — only to watch him marry another woman on the very day she came to claim him. She died with her name in ruins and the truth caught in her throat: the husband she had thrown away was the only man who had ever truly wanted her.

Then she opens her eyes — and it is the morning of the birthday where her cruelty began. Reborn with every memory of her disgrace intact, Xiao Fang bows to her parents and her older brother and begs for one more chance to be the daughter they deserved.

Being good is harder than being wicked. Her classmates remember the old tyrant; a two-faced friend is already weaving plots around her; and at school she meets her fiancé for the first time in this life — Wang Lei Lei, who looks at her as if he can see every sin of her past life written across her face. He is supposed to be a stranger. So why does his gaze follow her the way a man watches someone he has already grieved for?

Xiao Fang tells herself the engagement is only a debt she means to repay: behave, graduate, set him free. But her cold fiancé keeps stepping closer — shielding her from gunfire when a hired killer attacks, filling her garden with hydrangeas he ordered planted in three days, murmuring that he knew the girl she used to be and chose her anyway. Somewhere between the contract and the wedding rings, pretending stops being pretend.

Yet the past is not finished with her. A childhood friend returns wearing black leather gloves and a smile that conceals a mafia empire; the woman who haunts her dreams whispers a claim on the man she loves; jealous heiresses sharpen their knives over embroidery, archery, and stolen dress designs; and the golden ring Xiao Fang hides at her throat is a promise that belongs to a lifetime she was never supposed to remember.

This time, the vicious serpent intends to keep everything she once threw away — her family, her company, her first love, and the fiancé she is beginning to suspect chose her long before she deserved it.

A slow-burn romance of second chances: scheming classmates, family redemption, boardroom warfare, and a marriage agreement that quietly becomes the truest thing in either of their lives. On their wedding night her fingers curl into his silk shirt; the bedroom door clicks shut, and the rest belongs to them alone.