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* The narrator-protagonist of ''[[Historical Fiction|The Bronze God of Rhodes]]'' by [[L. Sprague de Camp]] comes to see his Arranged Marriage as this. He originally objected, saying he wanted a more exciting woman than the girl his father had picked out for him. After some '''experience''' with a [[Tsundere|more exciting]] [[Statuesque Stunner|woman]], he began to notice how appealing Dad's "sweet, [[Deliberate Values Dissonance|docile]]" choice really was. By the end of the book, he considers his marriage to her happy and loving. It plays very little actual part in the story, though.
*Inversion: [[Vorkosigan Saga]] the long-awaited(and eagerly urged by his chaos fearing subjects)marriage of Emperor Gregor is a love match that turns out to be politically advantageous, crossing a delicate ethnic divide among the people's in his realm and raising a distinguished trading family to Imperial influence.
**Similarly in [[Vorkosigan Saga|Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]] Ivan marries Tej out of pure compassion and stays with her out of love because she is on the run from gangsters. The original goal is to keep immigration service from deporting her to where she is vulnerable to said gangsters, and the long term goal is-as Ivan is a close friend and cousin of the Emperor-give her a skilled(and sometimes ruthless) security service as her "bodyguards-in-law". When her father, comes back to gather the family for a war of revenge against the enemy Tej had been fleeing from he impatiently berates her for not taking one of all the many marriages he had so patiently tried to arrange. In reality silly little Ivan has enough connections to give the family a better deal then it could have ever dreamed of getting. It is just that [[Fridge Logic|he]] never arranged the deal and Tej got it just by falling in love.
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