Wen Shuning has always lacked two things: money and dignity.
Her mother needs dialysis three times a week, and hospital bills keep piling up. When she’s backed into a corner, an unexpected “contract” lands in her lap: pretend to be the fiancée of Huo Jingxing, CEO of the Huo Group, for one year, in exchange for five hundred thousand yuan.
Who is Huo Jingxing? The man every woman in the city wants to marry, and the person who controls the medical equipment company behind the medical accident that ruined her father.
She thinks she’s just a stand-in for Shen Qingyi, a tool to be summoned whenever he wants. But Huo Jingxing gradually realizes that this “stand-in” is hopelessly unlike one.
When his stomach hurts, she gives him the cheapest soda cracker instead of asking if he wants red wine.
In front of the sharp-eyed board members, she’s willing to defy them all just to stand up for him.
For the first time in his life, Huo Jingxing loses his composure. He warns himself: she’s only someone he’s paying. Don’t fall for her. But when Shen Qingyi really does return, and he sees another man standing behind her, he chooses the stupidest way to test Wen Shuning’s feelings: with divorce papers, he pushes her away with his own hands.
It’s only when an old, yellowed medical record comes to light that Wen Shuning discovers the truth: ever since the year her father was falsely accused, she and Huo Jingxing have been bound together by fate.
“Huo Jingxing, if you’d known I was Wen Zhaolin’s daughter, would you still have signed that contract?”
After a long silence, he places their marriage certificate back in her palm.
“I would have. But from now on, this isn’t a contract.”
A deception that began with money, and a gamble that ends with true love.
He says she was the best deal he ever made, never realizing he had already bet everything.
