To get the money she needed to save her grandmother’s life, Su Ruanruan, a level-ten social phobe, signed an absurd marriage contract.
She thought that as long as she behaved herself and played the part of a “lucky charm” wife, she could take the money and leave after a year.
But instead of a wicked, wealthy family, she found herself surrounded by a whole cast of drama queens and kings!
Her mother-in-law, Zhou Yalan, was a longtime romance-novel fan who wrote scripts and staged romantic scenes every day, determined to turn her icy son into a devoted husband.
To play along with her mother-in-law’s cheesy romance script, Su Ruanruan pretended to be moved to tears in front of 999 glowing roses.
Inside, she was ranting: “What kind of hellish taste is this? Gu Xizhou, have you been possessed by a square-dancing auntie?”
Little did she know that Gu Xizhou could read minds and had heard every word, including her wish to “be abducted by aliens.”
The man looked cold as ice on the outside, but her endless inner chatter and incredible cooking gradually won him over.
When a kind doctor showed up, Gu Xizhou finally dropped his icy act and cornered her against the wall, his eyes red as he growled,
“Wife, Mom says tonight’s script is ‘pretend until it’s real.’ Skip even one step, and she’ll dock our pay.”
From then on, Su Ruanruan was a mysterious culinary genius who ruled the food world by day and President Gu’s adorable, pampered wife by night.
And among the wealthy families, one saying began to spread: “You’d sooner provoke the King of Hell than Su Ruanruan, the Gu family’s daughter-in-law whom her mother-in-law pampers to the heavens.”
