Serena’s Settlement

For Serena, home is a battlefield of broken memories and crushing poverty, driving her to escape her cramped family apartment after graduation. Seeking freedom, she agrees to an arranged marriage with Edward Vance, a high-powered, brilliant lawyer who rescued her aunt from eviction. While Edward is the city's most eligible bachelor, he appears to Serena as a stranger made of ice—polite, professional, and entirely unreadable. Serena envisions a quiet, respectful marriage of convenience, but she is unprepared for the magnetic pull of a man who keeps his heart under lock and key. As she moves into his world of polished marble and silence, she begins to question if Edward is truly cold or merely guarded and whether he is the only one who can protect her from her past. In this new life, she realizes that some contracts are not meant to be broken, and the most dangerous emotions are the ones that defy logic.