[Separated lovers reunite | both leads have no romantic history | wealthy CEO | contract marriage | 1v1 | sweet youth romance]
They broke up when they were young. Cen Nian fell into the dust, while Ji Huaian stood high above the clouds.
A marriage contract binds them together once more.
Everyone says it's a transaction. Only Ji Huaian knows that all these years, he has never found peace from the feelings he left behind.
That summer, at seventeen, Cen Nian made a bet with someone: she would pursue Ji Huaian, the top student at their school who came from a poor family. The bet would last a month, and then she would walk away. She thought he wouldn't agree, but he did. Amid everyone's gossip and laughter, the two fell passionately in love.
She gave him only one month.
Seven years later, they meet again. She is a bankrupt heiress, singing and playing piano at upscale parties to earn extra money. He is the CEO of Ruiheng, seated beneath lights she can no longer reach. He gives her 300,000 yuan in exchange for one month of her time. A taste of her own medicine, as if it were finally his turn to play the game.
But no one tells her that the hair ties, candy wrappers, old school uniforms, and yellowed photo albums he kept in the basement all these years are the true stakes of their reunion. The answer he has waited seven years for has always been in her heart, and she has thirty days to admit that the one thing she didn't win in that bet at seventeen was Ji Huaian himself.
The month is over. This time, she doesn't get away, because he won't let her escape a second time.
