Angst and sweetness intertwined | Mutual salvation | Marriage first, love later | Growing together | Happy ending
When her grandmother falls gravely ill and urgently needs a fortune for surgery, desperate Lin Wantang signs a contract and marries Gu Yanzhi, the aloof business emperor feared throughout the city.
Their premarital agreement: one year, pretend to be married, don't fall for each other, and go their separate ways when the term ends.
Everyone says Gu Yanzhi is cold and heartless, with a wall around his heart. He would never open up to anyone, and considers marriage a pointless transaction.
The gentle, socially anxious finance prodigy only wants to keep her head down, fulfill the contract, save her grandmother, and leave.
But no one knows that the cold business emperor will fall completely in love with her over their day-to-day life together.
He breaks every principle and boundary he has:
He makes her hot soup in the middle of the night, memorizes everything she likes, shields her from every storm, and tears apart every rumor that slanders her.
Once distant and indifferent, keeping everyone at arm's length, he becomes a doting husband, possessive to the extreme.
Everyone thinks their marriage is nothing but a cold transaction.
Until the contract expires and Gu Yanzhi holds her captive in his arms, his eyes burning with obsessive devotion as he pleads with her and refuses to let go:
“Lin Wantang, the contract is void.”
“One year isn't enough. For the rest of our lives, it can only be you.”
