To collect the 80 yuan she was owed for boosting an account, Lin Xiaoman barged into a private room and mocked Shen Linchuan, a legend in esports.
Three days later, with her younger sister critically ill and nowhere else to turn, she woke up in his mansion. He handed her a contract: pretend to be his girlfriend for 500,000 yuan a year.
“Does Young Master Shen really need a woman that badly?” she scoffed.
He said nothing, just pulled up the security footage. He had already paid every one of her sister’s tuition fees, from kindergarten through university.
She thought this deal was a desperate way to survive. She moved into his penthouse and helped him fend off the wealthy elite’s insults, never realizing he had already seen through her secret identity as “Shadow.”
Then, in his study, she found a screenshot from an internet cafe taken three years earlier, with a question handwritten on the back: “Could it be her?”
Only then did she understand that this “chance encounter” was a reunion he had planned for years.
When the contract was about to expire, she tested him: “Duo Duo will miss you after a year.”
He set down his chopsticks, his gaze calm. “The contract can end, but I never planned to follow one with us.”
From contract spouses to soulmates, they join forces to face the world and heal each other’s wounds. This is a story that begins with money and ends with true love, about how two people risk a lifetime on a relationship born of “calculation” and win both lasting love and a legend of their own.
