Bound by Blood and Ink: The Allure of the "Contract Marriage with the Devil Billionaire" Trope

She finds out why he is the devil. She discovers the betrayal in his past. She learns that his first fiancée sold his company secrets, or that his father locked him in a basement. She stops seeing a monster and starts seeing a broken boy.

The "Contract Bride"

is his antithesis. She is usually the "sacrificial lamb"—a woman drowning in medical debt, facing eviction, or protecting a younger sibling from an abusive relative. She agrees to the marriage not for love, but for survival.