Su Zhiyu never imagined her marriage would begin with a thirty-page contract.
Lu Shiyan, president of the Lu Group and the cold-faced tyrant of the business world. People say he's ruthless and heartless, and marrying him would be like living as a widow. Su Zhiyu doesn't care. She only needs to get through the three-year contract, then leave with her dignity intact.
On their wedding night, he puts her in the guest room next door. "If you need anything, ask Aunt Zhang." She nods. "Thank you, Mr. Lu." He pauses. "Just call me Shiyan."
During their first week of marriage, they're like the most distant roommates, speaking fewer than ten words to each other. Yet every day, the fridge is stocked with her favorite cherries and tiramisu. She thinks the housekeeper prepared them, but the housekeeper smiles. "The young master ordered them, young madam."
In their first month of marriage, she waits for him to come home before locking the door. He tells her she doesn't need to wait anymore, and that the password to the lock is her birthday. She blinks. "How did you know my birthday?" He looks away. "It was in your file."
What he doesn't say is that he has read that file many times.
From "Mr. Lu" to "Shiyan," from living in separate rooms to being unable to bear parting, and from a contract to tearing up the agreement on the day it expires, it takes him three months to turn her from a stranger into the one person he will love for the rest of his life.
And their story isn't just about the two of them. She has two best friends, and he has three brothers. She has an older brother who's had a crush on someone for eight years, and a younger man who wears his heart on his sleeve. Six couples, six kinds of love, all sweet and indulgent, with no heartbreak.
Marriage before love: he falls first, she speaks up first, and eventually they both surrender to love.
