How Did Our Fake Marriage Turn Real?

[A slice-of-life story, slow and steady, marriage before love, a strong heroine, and the queen of cured meats!] Hidden in the mountains of southwest China are traditions passed down as intangible cultural heritage. Huang Xiaoya, an inheritor of her family’s cured-meat craft, uses a secret recipe handed down for generations to give her entire village hope. But when disaster strikes, she is forced to sign a contract and marry Gu Yanchen, the president of the wealthy Gu family, who urgently needs a “suitable wife” to resolve a family crisis. Bringing the warmth and rustic charm of the countryside into the glittering Gu household, she shoulders a hoe, makes cured meats, leaves snobbish relatives speechless, wins over the cold-hearted CEO with a bowl of cured-meat congee, and wows the Michelin scene with her heritage craft. When the fiery resilience of a capable country woman meets a business elite constrained by his family, and traditional cured meats collide with a modern business empire, the pretenses of their contract marriage gradually give way to a genuine bond.