Thirty years old, single, a little plump, and a career-driven senior executive at a consulting firm.
She has built a life for herself in the big city, and her career is steadily on the rise. But whenever she returns to her hometown, she is met not with warmth but with endless pressure to get married.
Her mother and relatives take turns setting her up on one blind date after another, as if “marrying into a good family” were the only goal left in her life.
Unable to bring herself to refuse her family, she swallows her frustration and goes along with each date, hiding her exhaustion and loneliness behind silence.
No one truly cares what she wants.
Until one summer, she is once again arranged to meet a “highly eligible” man in finance.
But someone else shows up instead.
Unhurried and calm, he waits quietly while she finishes a work call, then gives her a hand-drawn sketch before leaving.
She thinks it's just an unexpected little interlude.
Meanwhile, another blind date proposes a “business arrangement”: they can pretend to be a couple and deal with their families together.
But as they spend more and more time together, she loses control. The person who appeared in her life as a “stand-in” has truly captured her heart.
A sweet, healing urban romance.
