I'm a thief, he's gay. Put us together and you've got “honor among thieves, and love with a little extra spice”!
Lin You grew up on the streets of Chengdu as a “streetwise hustler.” She and her master get by through “robbing the rich to help the poor.” She's lively, mischievous, and thinks in wonderfully bizarre ways. During a job at a nightclub, someone drugs her, and in a panic she throws herself into the arms of a stranger, Shen Yu, begging for help. The two end up sleeping together by accident in a penthouse suite. She sneaks away the next morning, unaware that the wheels of fate have already begun to turn.
Unable to find a job, she somehow winds up signing a fake-marriage contract with Shen Yu, CEO of Shengheng Group. For an annual salary of a million, she is to pose as his wife in a marriage of convenience. She's convinced Shen Yu is a closeted gay man and that she's just a temporary hire doing a job for money. She treats him like one of the girls and is always demanding, “Pay me extra.”
What she doesn't know is that Shen Yu recognized her years ago at the aquarium as the “little mermaid” who saved him from a shipwreck. He's been carefully planning every move just to keep her by his side. From getting their marriage certificate to moving in together and going on their honeymoon, Lin You delivers one hilarious mishap after another. She mistakes Gao Lei for Shen Yu's true love and catches them in a compromising situation, ending up at the police station. A remark about “too much earth in the five elements” makes Shen Yu abandon a bid and avoid a real estate crash. When he falls into a river, she jumps in and saves him.
Only when the truth about her pregnancy comes out does Lin You realize that the man from the nightclub that night and the man she'd been intimate with after their marriage were one and the same! Once their misunderstandings are cleared up, she transforms from a “contract wife” into the founder of a charitable foundation, and Shen Yu learns to be honest.
When their three-year agreement ends, he offers her a “lifetime contract”: “Your annual salary will be my entire fortune.” Lin You laughs and signs. This time, it's not an act. It's true love.
