The Six-Month Wife

"Six months. After that, we’re strangers."

Han Seo-yeon was only ever the disposable spare, the quiet, illegitimate daughter kept in the shadows while her half-sister ruled Seoul’s elite social circles. But when the original bride vanishes hours before South Korea’s biggest chaebol wedding of the year, Seo-yeon is forced into a couture gown and pushed down the aisle to save her mother from ruin. At the altar waits Kang Tae-hyun: the lethal, untouchable vice chairman of Haedam Group, who treats marriage like a cold corporate merger. He recognizes the imposter beneath the veil instantly. Yet with his voting rights on the line, he strikes an ironclad deal: survive one hundred and eighty days as his wife, stay out of his personal life, and walk away clean. Forced together in his penthouse fortress, Seo-yeon refuses to play the timid substitute. She dismantles his rigid routines, calls out his arrogance, and matches his icy glare with razor-sharp wit. But behind closed doors, friction turns to fire. Stolen glances in corporate ballrooms shift into fierce, breathless encounters, and the man who lives on balance sheets becomes ruthlessly possessive of the only woman who doesn't fear him. When corporate sabotage, family conspiracies, and a hidden multi-billion-won clause threaten to destroy them both, Seo-yeon discovers the terrifying truth: Surviving Kang Tae-hyun was supposed to be the hard part. Walking away when the clock runs out might break her completely.