After The Despised Adopted Son Was Forced Into an Arranged Marriage

“Let me correct that, I wasn’t forced! I agreed of my own free will!”

A genius investor named Bai Xu transmigrated into a novel, becoming the most despised adopted son of the Bai family in a story about wealthy family power struggles.

The original host was an orphan, and only because a fortune teller said he had a ‘strong fate that could ward off disasters and malevolent forces’ did he become the nominal young master of the Bai family.

The original host had good looks but was a spineless, empty-headed fool, despite holding the title of young master, even the servants could bully him.

Until the Bai family patriarch passed away, and the Bai family, driven by business interests, forcibly married the original host off to the third young master of the Shang family— who was in a coma after a car accident, under the pretext of a ‘bringing good fortune’ marriage.

In less than a year, the original host was set up and exploited, dying a senseless death in the Shang family’s power struggles.

Less than three days after Bai Xu transmigrated, he found himself in the middle of a full-scale forced marriage situation.

Faced with the scheming, calculating members of the Bai family, Bai Xu glanced once more at his comatose marriage partner lying in the hospital bed, and spoke up on his own:

“Marriage is, after all, a matter between two families. Since my future fiancé isn’t in a position to be present, as for the betrothal gifts and dowry and such, just hash it out amongst yourselves and transfer it directly to my bank card.”

The crowd, caught completely off guard by his demands for money: “?”

Once the terms were settled and the ward door closed, Bai Xu immediately broke into a cheerful hum: “Tsk, tsk, tsk, good-looking but comatose, family’s loaded but has no hold over me. Where else would you find such a perfect, practically non-existent, transparent marriage? I’m basically getting paid for free~”

Shang Yanxiao, who was faking his coma: “……”