At 35, Lin Zhixia is divorced and raising a child on her own. She thinks her life has already gone off the rails: her company has “downsized” her, her ex-husband cheated and ran up gambling debts, and her landlord is demanding rent. As she hugs a cardboard box and moves out on a stormy night, she walks straight into Lu Wenchen’s Maybach.
“Can’t you watch where you’re going?” the man says coldly, the black onyx cuff links at his sleeves gleaming with understated luxury.
“Can’t you look before opening your car door?” she yells back, her eyes red as a rabbit’s.
One contract later, she becomes his project manager for a maternal and infant care venture, earning an annual salary of 400,000 yuan, with a hands-on CEO dad thrown in to help look after her child. She thinks they’re just using each other, but it turns out the president of the Lu Group is a goofy control freak: afraid she’ll get soaked, he assigns her a bodyguard around the clock; afraid she’ll run short on cash, he hands her a black card; afraid she’ll be mistreated, he sends her ex-husband to Dubai to guard a warehouse. Her ten-year-old daughter, Candy, is an even bigger helper, changing their contract marriage agreement into a pampering-wife agreement. At the school’s parent-child sports day, he sprints to victory in the hundred-meter race, prompting the whole school to shriek, “Hottest dad ever!”
From a contract marriage to true love, from a career comeback to healing as a family, he awkwardly learns to let go, while she proves through her professional ability that “divorce isn’t failure; it’s making way for the right person.” When an “expired” 35-year-old divorcee takes on a 38-year-old doting CEO, when their outgoing ten-year-old ships them online, and when her wealthy mother-in-law goes from making things difficult to loving her wholeheartedly… the encounter that began in a rainstorm ends in radiance.
This isn’t a Cinderella fairy tale. It’s the story of two wounded people rebuilding a home amid the ruins. There’s sweetness and angst, laughter and tears, and plenty of Candy’s zingers: “Dad’s ears are red again!” “Mom, you two are arguing so much, you’re making my eyelashes twitch!” The world is radiant because you never gave up.
