A business alliance marriage binds two people who have nothing to do with each other.
Jiang Yining has just ended a three-year relationship, tears still in her eyes, when she’s forced to sit down for a blind date. The man across from her is Fu Chenzhou, heir to Jiangcheng’s most powerful family: aloof, abstinent, and ruthless. His only condition is that they not interfere in each other’s lives after marriage, and preferably not fall in love.
Fu Chenzhou thinks marrying a woman who loves someone else is the safest investment. She won’t cling to him, he won’t have to take responsibility, and they can treat each other with respect while each gets what they need.
On the very day they register their marriage, he flies to Europe to expand his business, leaving his new wife alone in their empty home. Everyone says Mr. Fu has no feelings for the wife he married for the alliance. She’s just a sacrifice to family interests.
Then one night, Jiang Yining gets drunk and makes a mistake, mumbling her ex-boyfriend’s name as she clings to him. Fu Chenzhou, usually so composed and self-controlled, loses control for the first time. He pins her against the floor-to-ceiling window, a terrifying storm churning in his eyes, and demands hoarsely, “Do you want a divorce so you can go back to him?”
Jiang Yining hastily apologizes and promises never to do it again. But Fu Chenzhou has had enough of this damned “mutual respect.”
He closes in on her and pulls her into his arms, his voice more humble and obsessive than ever before:
“Yining, could you make even a little room for me in your heart?”
They marry first and fall in love later, with the husband chasing his wife after losing her. He’s the one who falls first, and he’s the one who hopelessly succumbs to this contract gone awry.
