Gu Niansheng is a hugely successful web novelist living quietly among ordinary people. Tired of suitors drawn to her wealth, she deliberately pretends to be an ordinary office clerk earning five thousand a month when she goes on a blind date. She rides a shared bike and wears inexpensive clothes, hoping only to find someone whose love has nothing to do with money.
Lu Yanchen controls a conglomerate worth tens of billions. Having seen through the hypocrisy of people who fawn over the rich, he drives an old Santana and wears cheap T-shirts while posing as a taxi driver, rejecting anyone who tries to get close to him for the sake of marrying into a wealthy family.
At a blind date arranged by their elders, the two hit it off immediately. Each thinks the other comes from an ordinary background. After just a few days, they agree to marry at once, sign a marriage contract, move into an old sixty-square-meter rental apartment, and decide to live like an ordinary working couple.
Their married life is full of the gentle push and pull of keeping secrets from each other. They squabble over splitting a few dozen yuan for meals, yet secretly buy expensive things for one another. The male lead sneaks onto the balcony late at night to handle company business, while the female lead hides in the bathroom to work on her novel. Each is worth billions, yet both feel sorry for the other for having to work so hard to make a living.
Countless little clues gradually come to light, but they silently agree not to point them out, and their feelings grow amid their mutual testing. Only when a storm of public opinion strikes and both their secret identities as the wealthy are fully exposed do they honestly explain why they pretended: neither of them was looking for a fortune or a match of equal status, only sincere love without ulterior motives.
Even after dropping their disguises, they still prefer the lively warmth of their rental apartment. Together, they overcome prejudice from the wealthy and malicious slander from rivals, proving that the best relationships begin with the illusion of poverty and remain true to each other's hearts.
Theme: Stripping away the filter of material wealth to explore pure and sincere love. The story follows the leads as they abandon their disguises of wealth, choose each other in the everyday warmth of ordinary life, and protect one another. It shows that true love has nothing to do with status or assets: what lies at the heart of a relationship is sincere companionship.
