Shen Zhiwei is a top-tier investment bank quantitative analyst who is used to breaking everything down with data models, including marriage.
On the day of her blind date, she calculates that the domineering CEO sitting across from her has a “negative return on investment” and rejects him on the spot. Unexpectedly, he pulls out a marriage contract and offers her a deal she can’t refuse.
She turns a three-page agreement into thirty-two pages. Penalties for breach, separate bedrooms, no interference in each other’s affairs… Every clause is coolly, almost ruthlessly, precise.
Lu Hengzhi smiles as he signs. It’s only a contract, he thinks. Sooner or later, I’ll get you to break it.
But he never expected that this woman, who uses Excel to navigate romance, would make him believe for the first time that love isn’t a matter of probability: it’s an all-or-nothing gamble. When faced with a 12% chance of marital success, she decides to bet on that 12%. Data can lie, but a racing heart can’t.
