[A plus-size girl gets her happy ending + secret crush + contract + a man chases his wife after losing her]
Lin Nuannuan, a slightly plump heiress, falls in love at first sight with Gu Qingzhou, a gifted architecture student. With awkward but ardent sincerity, she approaches him day after day, carrying carefully prepared pastries and eyes full of starlight. She has no idea that the meeting she considers a gift from fate began with a cold contract her father bought with money and sponsorship.
Gu Qingzhou is proud but poor. To pay for his gravely ill mother’s treatment, he is forced to sign a three-year “dating agreement.” He keeps her at a distance, treating every approach as an obligation and mistaking her tentative efforts to please him, driven by insecurity, for a rich girl’s capricious game. He fails to see how hard she is trying to change her appearance for him, and overlooks the dependence quietly growing in him as he gets used to her.
When the truth about the contract is cruelly exposed and the girl who was Gu Qingzhou’s unattainable first love reappears, Lin Nuannuan’s world collapses. The girl who always smiled and gave everything finally decides to walk away. She cuts her hair, picks up her dreams, and rediscovers her own radiance amid the aroma of baked goods. The truth is, she was already dazzling, just the way she was.
But Gu Qingzhou, who has finally lost her, feels a searing pain for the first time as he sits before an empty breakfast table. With the sponsorship withdrawn and the contract void, he must learn to love again with a heart free of ulterior motives, and win back the girl he once failed to see.
This is a romance experiment that began with money and lies, and a long journey about dignity, growth, and self-acceptance. When love is stripped of every condition, will they still recognize who they were at the start?
