Investigative reporter Cheng Ye is hired anonymously to infiltrate Shengjing Tech, the pride of domestic industry, and uncover the truth behind its product-quality scandal. But the target of her investigation makes her an offer first:
Play the contract girlfriend of Shen Mochen, a spoiled heir. Eight hundred yuan an hour, with double pay for intimate scenes.
One is a sharp-tongued, clear-eyed lone wolf who trusts only a complete chain of evidence. The other is a carefree, smiling infiltrator who has secretly been gathering evidence for three years. During one “assignment” after another, they undermine each other and test each other’s limits. Their relationship shifts from employer and employee to partners in crime, from pretending to fall in love to delivering the final link in the chain of evidence.
This is a seven-year industry scandal: defective products passed off as premium goods, workplace accidents settled for a mere eight thousand yuan, and the media’s credibility reduced to a servant of vested interests. It is also the story of two people burdened by old debts finally choosing each other. He spent three years paving the way, waiting for her to close the net. She stayed silent for eight years, then wrote her first open letter.
When the truth comes out and the chain of evidence is complete, she asks him, “How much is the penalty for breaking this contract?”
He says, “Zero. Party B can terminate it at any time.”
But she no longer wants to.
After all, Party A promised he would wait.
