After failing her twelfth blind date, Lin Wanxing complained to her best friend, “If they keep pressuring me to get married, I’ll just grab someone and marry him.” Her words happened to reach her boss, Lu Chengze, whose grandfather was pressuring him to marry. The next second, Lu Chengze offered her a “flash-marriage agreement”: “We both get what we need. We’ll divorce in a year, and I’ll pay you a hundred thousand.” They got their marriage certificates in record time, but also had to obey the company rule against workplace romances, kicking off a chaotic secret-marriage life.
At work, he was a stern director and she was a well-behaved subordinate. They had to pretend not to know each other even when she handed him documents. At home, they shared a roof and slept in separate rooms, but “accidents” kept ruining their resolve: he wiped cream from the corner of her mouth, and she made him stomach-soothing porridge. Things grew even more complicated when Chen Yang, a new designer, pursued Lin Wanxing relentlessly, while Su Man, a business partner, kept a close eye on Lu Chengze. As jealousy bubbled between them, the two gradually fell in love for real while “putting on an act.”
From snatching snacks at the supermarket and being mistaken for a couple by the neighbors, to pretending to be relatives at the annual gala and getting caught out, their secret marriage kept springing more leaks. At last, at a project celebration banquet, Lu Chengze took Lin Wanxing’s hand and announced to everyone, “She’s my wife, not my colleague.” A flash marriage that began with pressure to wed ultimately became a love they both chose.
