With her grandmother near death and no way out, Shen Niantang signs a contract: marry the cold-faced CEO Gu Yanzhou for one year, in exchange for three million yuan.
He’s known in the business world as a “machine,” cold and rational, and never one for company. She’s a young designer from the urban villages, relying on the kesi weaving skills passed down by her grandmother. Two people from different worlds are forced to play husband and wife under the same roof.
Shen Niantang thinks the year will be nothing but an ordeal. Then she discovers professional sewing equipment waiting in the villa’s studio, her grandmother’s work hidden away in the study, and that the quiet, taciturn man has been collecting her family’s craft for seven years, ever since before they met.
He collects endangered handicrafts not for business, but because things that don’t leave are more trustworthy than people.
When the contract ends, she says she’s leaving, and for the first time, he panics.
“I thought I liked things that wouldn’t leave. Then I realized I wanted them to meet you before they left, because I’ve been waiting for you all along.”
He can’t smile, so she teaches him. She isn’t strong enough, so he protects her.
A marriage contract, a home for life.
