{"id":7289,"date":"2025-05-25T19:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7289"},"modified":"2025-05-25T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T19:05:35","slug":"they-wanted-me-to-marry-for-profit-so-i-chose-love-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7289","title":{"rendered":"They Wanted Me to Marry for Profit \u2014 So I Chose Love Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never planned to fall in love.<br \/>\nIn my world, love was optional\u2014power, legacy, and appearances came first. Marriage? A business deal, not a dream. I was raised to believe emotions were distractions. Romance was for stories. Life was about strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I was the heir to a fortune. My family didn\u2019t just have money\u2014we had influence. Lavish homes, elite schools, everything curated for image. But I had one flaw: I craved freedom. I lived fast, reckless, untamed. My father, a self-made billionaire, hated it. My mother just sighed and poured more wine.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they tolerated me. I was expected to eventually fall in line, marry \u201cappropriately,\u201d and protect the family name. That all changed over one dinner. A setup. A proposal masked as a polite evening.<\/p>\n<p>She was beautiful, poised, everything they wanted for me. But as she spoke about mergers and market value like a romance novel, all I could think about was someone else\u2014someone who made my world feel real\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never planned to fall in love. In my world, love was optional\u2014power, legacy, and appearances came first. Marriage? A business deal, not a dream. I was&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7291,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions\/7291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}