Marriage first, love later / Powerful man learns to bend / Slow-burn romance / Healing each other
Sunny, resilient pet-farewell specialist VS stern, fatherly investment tycoon
After being raised by an ordinary family for 23 years, Shen Mi learns she is the missing younger daughter of the wealthy Lin family.
But the Lin family takes her back so she can marry in her older sister’s place.
The man from the Fu family is a cold-blooded, hyper-rational business machine, notorious as a sharp-eyed investment genius with no feelings.
Shen Mi agrees to marry him because she hears he is aloof and desireless, and spends most of the year away on business trips.
She does her best to play the part of Mrs. Fu, remaining polite and distant and never overstepping.
The upper-class crowd mocks her for growing up in a poor household, spending all day working with animal corpses, and being both tacky and unlucky. They all wait to see when the Fu family will send her packing.
But before long, people see the lofty, cold CEO Fu kneeling on the street to help the young woman put on her shoes.
The workaholic, whose daily schedule is planned down to the minute and who never changes his routine for anyone, leaves a roomful of senior executives waiting while he coaxes his sulky young wife in his office.
Before the wedding, he says coldly, “I can give you any resource you want, except love. When our contract ends, we’ll go our separate ways.”
After the wedding, he clings to his wife when she tries to leave, jealous and pouting. “Which matters more to you, your work or me?”
Shen Mi: Weren’t you supposed to be aloof and desireless? Why is my back sore every day, and why am I the one who never gets enough sleep?
The Lin family is green with envy. “If we’d known, we would’ve let our eldest daughter marry him.”
The Fu family: “Sorry, we only want Shen Mi. No exchanges or returns!”
A man who never knew love learns how to love.
