Beyond the Contract, Within a Heartbeat

Shen Zhiyao is a partner at a well-known architecture firm in Shanghai: cool-headed, restrained, and firmly against marriage.

Lin Yan is an independent illustrator who has just returned from abroad. Gentle yet resolute, she urgently needs a marriage to shelter her from family troubles.

They enter a marriage of convenience, each expecting to get what they need. But as their days together turn into a routine, which of them will fall in love first?

When the contract expires, she asks for a divorce, but he says with reddened eyes, "Lin Yan, when did I ever agree to let you go?"