[Cool on the outside, clueless on the inside, biomedical research institute] × [Gentle, secretly passionate CEO]
Set in an alternate world. The characters aren't professional researchers and don't understand the procedures.
One pursues, the other runs. Happy ending, both are each other's first and only.
Chen Manye has been married to Lu Minghe for three years. With a face that resembles the woman he loves by seventy percent, she has endured a marriage as cold as ice. She knows exactly what she is to him: a substitute. Their contract lasts three years, and when it expires, she'll leave without looking back. She puts all her hopes in the lab, never in him.
The day Lu Minghe's beloved, Lin Wei, returns to the country, Chen Manye sensibly packs her bags. But the man who hasn't looked her in the eye in three years removes the bed from the guest room and moves her luggage into the master bedroom. He starts driving her to and from work every day, pushes her grandmother's wheelchair around the nursing home so she can enjoy the sun, and even blocks the Lin family's entrance and slaps Lin Wei himself for her sake.
Chen Manye only wants to quietly make it through the last six months, but he keeps closing in, shutting off every escape route one by one. It's not that she isn't moved; she understands too well what it costs to fall for someone. In her second year of high school, she wrote him a love letter. Later, that letter was passed around the entire hallway. She doesn't want to feel that pain a second time.
The substitute wants to leave, but the powerful man refuses to let go. Who will teach them how to love, when their marriage began with a contract?
