A refreshing, unconventional urban healing romance about a tough cleaning lady and a billionaire CEO who can’t sleep, full of absurdity and warmth.
[Synopsis] At fifty, Shan Shan is divorced and has been sterilized. She’s the cleaning supervisor at Cloudtop, a luxury apartment complex. Her only goal in life is to save enough money to pay her social insurance contributions and enjoy a peaceful retirement. Twenty-eight-year-old Huo Yanchen, CEO of the immensely wealthy Huo Group, has power and influence in spades, but he’s been tormented by severe insomnia for five years and can barely get by with the help of powerful sleeping pills.
A mishap involving a “door lock repair” sends Shan Shan into the forbidden Number One Presidential Suite. On a night when his medication gets out of control, Huo Yanchen discovers that the only place he can finally get a full night’s sleep is beside this fifty-year-old woman, who smells of cheap soap and disinfectant.
Offered a contract paying 200,000 yuan a month as a “sleep consultant,” Shan Shan, ever clearheaded, throws down her sterilization certificate and a liability waiver. She refuses to quit her job because “I can’t lose my social insurance,” and quotes him 300 yuan a day for caregiving. That’s when things get truly ridiculous: the billionaire CEO takes away her bus pass so he can drive her himself, learns to tie a Windsor knot by hand, and even starts eating noodles made with the rotten tomatoes she bought for a yuan a pile.
During this trial period as a “human sleeping pill,” Huo Yanchen finds his one and only source of comfort and salvation in Shan Shan. Meanwhile, with fifty years of life experience, Shan Shan quietly takes advantage of every perfectly legal perk she can get while keeping this all-powerful business tycoon firmly in hand. It’s a healing journey that pits clearheaded pragmatism against the most intense obsession.
