TheRedQueen

Shao Lin feared the Underworld. He ruled it. 

Pampered and coddled her whole life, the sweet and innocent—Shao Lin—heiress of Shao Enterprise, had been raised to be perfect, obedient, and innocent—to listen to what others told her to please her family to meet the expectations of elite high society and to win the hearts of many. 

That was until she inherited Shao Enterprise upon her late father’s untimely demise. Now, entangled in a web of hidden secrets that he hid, she soon learned that not everything in her life was picturesque. 

Her father’s death was mysterious. Shady. She then found herself entangled with the secret societies of the Underworld and amongst them, the most dangerous of them all—the Dragon Syndicate and the man that ruled it. 

She then finds herself torn between what she knows and what she thought she knew. 

Torn in a web of romance between—Zhong Bai the detective, her childhood friend, helping her solve the case and the man she loathed but desires, Long Yat-sen, her enemy—Shao Lin finds herself conflicted between choosing what she's familiar with and what is dangerous but thrilling for her. 

**This novel is a short R-18 enemies-to-lovers romance with a marriage of convenience between a sweet woman, with a love of good things and flowers, and her villain. 

tropes: arranged marriage; enemies to lovers, slow-burn, short-term love triangle, romance and smut.

The Villain and His Sweet Wife

Yuan Bojing was drawn to her smile. He leaned into her just as the car began to move. "What makes you happy, my wife?" He knew the answer, but he wanted to hear her say it.

She nodded, biting her lower lip, her eyes nearly closing. "I am Empress. And I am married to you. What more could I want?"

Yuan Bojing came over her until she was lying flat beneath him on the backseat of the car. He kissed her. His hands roamed over her body, feeling, squeezing, touching. They broke apart when once they arrived at their new home.

It was a house big enough to sleep more than a dozen guests. During the house tour, they instantly fell in love with the home and bought it right away.

Happiness: 18+