Xu Yanzhen, a 28-year-old gold medal M&A lawyer, believes in contracts above all else. Yan Shucong, the 32-year-old leader of Yanshi Technology, regards marriage as a purely commercial act. Behind a tens-billion acquisition case, two major families put them on the stage of marriage - she needed the Yan family's funds, and he needed the Xu family's business connections. One-year contract, living in separate houses, non-interference with each other, contract terminated at the end of the term. The terms are so clear that there is no trace of warmth.
But after moving into the same penthouse apartment, the smell of late-night coffee, the tit-for-tat at the negotiation table, and the instinctive protection in critical moments began to seep into the dam built by reason like an undercurrent. He stayed overnight when she fainted, and she handed him warm milk when he had insomnia. They agreed not to care about each other, but secretly wrote down all of each other's habits.
As the countdown begins, the contract becomes more and more ironic. When business snipers and family conspiracies struck one after another, they were forced to transform from partners into true comrades-in-arms. When the contract that was clearly stated to only last for one year became something that no one was willing to tear up - she finally understood that some terms were meant to be broken from the beginning.
But what she didn't know was that he had already secretly torn up the coldest line in the contract.
