A marriage alliance arranged for the benefit of two wealthy families puts Su Wan and Lu Jingyan’s names on the same marriage certificate. The day after registering their marriage, she leaves the country, keeping her distance from what she sees as a “transaction.” She is gone for five years. When she returns, she has become a moderately well-known designer, only to run into her “husband,” Lu Jingyan, arriving hand in hand with his rumored girlfriend at a lavish banquet.
He is the man who holds the Lu family’s power in A City, able to turn the business world upside down. He once pushed her away with the words, “We each get what we want.” Now, in front of everyone, he lifts his cool gaze and calmly declares, “This is my wife.”
Five years have done nothing to quiet the undercurrents beneath their marriage contract. He schemes at every turn, entering her work and life as her client. The shift in how she addresses him, from “Mr. Lu” to “Jingyan,” conceals his quiet probing. She dodges him at every turn, yet catches glimpses of the stubborn tenderness beneath his icy exterior in the warm breakfasts he brings late at night and the unwavering way he defends her against false accusations.
As a design plagiarism scandal, misunderstandings involving an old flame, and business rivalries pile up, this long-delayed “post-marriage romance” begins to heat up amid their push and pull. He breaks the chains of their “contract” through his actions. “Su Wan, I was an idiot five years ago. I didn’t tell you that from the day we registered our marriage, all I ever wanted was you, not a transaction.”
From treating each other with “icy” civility to becoming the apple of his eye, she finally uncovers the past and misunderstandings buried for so long. Only then does she realize that their reunion beneath the neon lights was the long-planned beginning of his campaign to win her back. This time, Lu Jingyan holds her hand tight and promises softly, “Mrs. Lu, welcome home. This time, don’t leave again.”
