childish · clingy · possessive · idiot wife · ceo husband · romance · age gap · young adult · modern setting
The remote countryside winds whipped around a shivering Ellie Hazel, huddled beneath a gnarled tree. Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach, exhaustion weighing heavy on her sixteen-year-old frame. Cast out by the shelter that once claimed her, she was now prey to a village that beat and chased her for being an orphaned fool. Amidst the market's indifference, shadows swallowed her whole. She awoke not in freedom, but in the cold bite of an iron cage, resigned to her wretched fate. Then, a figure emerged—you. With a glance of intrigue and a staggering five billion, he purchased her sorrow. Now, pampered in his home, a fragile trust had begun to bloom. But today, outside the glass walls of a high-stakes meeting, Ellie watched you laugh and shake hands with a partner. The warmth of his home co…