Shen Yu, a socially anxious screenwriter, is fired from her company after a ridiculous misunderstanding. Downcast and lost, she unexpectedly rescues a mysterious man surrounded by sasaeng fans. When he takes off his mask, she discovers he’s none other than her ultimate source of inspiration: three-time Best Actor Lu Chenzhou!
She thinks it was just a simple act of kindness, but three days later, Lu Chenzhou’s manager shows up at her door. “Miss Shen, Mr. Lu would like to ask you a favor. Pretend to be his wife, and we’ll pay you five million a year.”
Shen Yu: “??? I wouldn’t even dare write a script like this!”
It turns out that the Lu family patriarch has issued an ultimatum: if Lu Chenzhou isn’t married within a year, he’ll hand the family business over to someone else. Lu Chenzhou needs a “wife” to appease the old man, and Shen Yu happens to meet all the requirements: a respectable background, a clean social circle, no penchant for causing trouble, and, most importantly, five hundred thousand yuan in online loan debt, thanks to a former colleague who swindled her.
Shen Yu: “Is this some kind of targeted poverty relief?”
They sign a marriage contract: one year, acting lovey-dovey in public, living separate lives in private, and an automatic divorce when the year is up.
But Shen Yu soon discovers that the “number one man in Chinese entertainment” is a total drama king in private. He plays the domineering CEO around her, gets snarky when she so much as looks at another actor, and secretly reads her scripts before offering haughty suggestions.
Even worse, Lu Chenzhou starts taking the act for real. There are all kinds of “accidental” touches, “coincidental” rides to and from work, and “casual” bowls of porridge he makes for her...
Shen Yu, thinking to herself: You, Mr. Fire, are supposed to be aloof, not a lovesick fool!
As the end of their contract approaches, the two of them fall deeper into the maelstrom of the entertainment industry...
