Hou Mingchuan is a grassroots township official who has spent five years working his way up. He divorces Han Bing, the daughter of a prominent business family, because of the gulf between their backgrounds. Later, he unexpectedly meets Xi Tongying, the county Party committee office’s resident beauty. To escape her family’s pressure, Xi proposes an absurd agreement: a fake marriage. But a bigger storm is brewing. Hou Mingchuan strikes back against his political enemies and turns the tables when all seems lost...