At her engagement banquet, Lin Xiaoxiao is publicly humiliated and dumped by her boyfriend. At her lowest point, she points to the aloof, distinguished man in the corner: Gu Yan, the head of a business empire and the man her ex could only ever look up to. “Mr. Gu, marry me. Do you dare?”
She thinks it’s a transaction in which they each get what they want, and presents an agreement for a year of secret marriage: separate bedrooms, no interference.
But she has no idea that she has walked straight into a trap he has been carefully laying for years. The seemingly emotionally closed-off “gloomy puppy” who awkwardly learns how to love her has long been building her a silent fortress called love.
As the agreement’s term nears its end, she tries to walk away. He holds her tight, eyes red, and tears up the agreement. “The one who makes the rules gets to rewrite them. And you will always be the only one for me.”
