A stubborn, soft-hearted director x a top-tier heir to a wealthy family who slowly lures her in; a beautiful young woman who seems like a flirt but is actually easy to tempt and always ready to divorce and run away x a cold, dark, and calculating lover who acts cool on the surface but is hopelessly in love, guiding her every step of the way.
Married first, fall in love later | Contract couple livestream | Older man, 22 x 28 | One-on-one, each other's first love | A sweet romance full of tension.
Blurb: “I heard your wife has another boyfriend”
Up-and-coming director Fu Ning wins numerous awards for her debut film, but her reputation is divisive. Some love the lively spirit of her work and her stunning beauty, while others accuse her of building her career by shipping herself with co-stars, then acting aloof and looking down on everyone.
In particular, after a clip of a popular top-tier star lifting Fu Ning's train at an awards ceremony goes viral, a marketing account claims the two have been together for a long time, and that Fu Ning was the one throwing herself at him.
The scandal claiming that scheming Fu Ning used this to pressure him into giving her the title of girlfriend only adds to the rumors.
At the banquet after the ceremony,
the neglected young woman is perfectly content sitting in a corner. She doesn't notice the usually arrogant entertainment moguls hurrying to gather around an outstanding figure.
The man has an exceptionally handsome face.
Even more fearsome than his top-tier looks is his mysterious background, which no one dares discuss in public.
Someone sees Fu Ning get up and sneers, “Stop dreaming. Dating a top-tier star is the best romance you'll ever manage. Someone with his status is way out of your league.”
Fu Ning looks up. The moment she recognizes the man she's supposedly unable to reach, her pretty face changes color. She grabs her clutch and leaves.
The next second,
just as she is about to make her escape, an arm casually wraps around her long legs and pulls her into his embrace.
The man, pure and abstinent, who is rumored to have rejected countless actresses, looks at her and lets his gaze drift lazily over the bare ring finger on her hand.
Then he removes his own pinky ring and slips it firmly onto her finger without a word.
“Be good. They say I'm out of your league.”
“Tell me, what part of me haven't you already had?”
The next day,
news breaks that a discreet second-generation heir, so private the internet can't find a single clear photo of his face, has gotten married before turning thirty. The news comes directly from the man himself, who has registered an account to announce it.
@Jiang Siyu FJ: Wife, someone says you're someone else's girlfriend. Could I, just this once, throw myself at you and steal you away? @Fu Ning lemon
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The first time Fu Ning meets Jiang Siyu, he saves the lecher whose head she had cracked open in the wilderness.
Her only impression of him is that he's a stuffy doctor with too much professional seriousness and nothing going for him but his handsome face.
The second time, the temperature in the Alps drops sharply at night. Waking up in the middle of the night, freezing, she knocks on the only tent nearby with its light on.
“Could I borrow some hot water, ” The words die on her lips when she sees the tantalizing hint of bare skin under the man's shirt. Fu Ning, who's slightly face-blind, blinks. “It's pretty cold. Want to sleep together?”
The third time is after she returns home.
The niche film directed by Fu Ning has a good reputation but abysmal box office returns. When she's reduced to selling her house to pay everyone's wages, a clip from a roadshow event, secretly filmed by a marketing account while she was promoting the film, suddenly goes viral.
[The leads' sweet moments leave me unmoved, but those three seconds of chemistry between two gorgeous strangers who don't even know each other? I'm obsessed.]
[Nothing's sweeter than a relationship that starts with a forced pairing. Sweetheart, do a one-day contract-couple livestream with that handsome stranger, and I'll buy out the theater for a whole day!]
Fu Ning, who'd rather lose her head than sell herself for art, looks at the huge debt her studio owes and finally bows to money.
After going to great lengths, she tracks down the man in the video.
He's just come out of surgery. His bloodstained scrubs conceal the pinky ring of the man who would later abandon his anti-marriage stance and flirt with her in bed every which way to get her to marry him. His warm brown eyes above his mask, which had just been looking at the patient's family, seem filled with a serenity that transcends life and death.
But after leaving the hospital, he stands alone in a shadowy stairwell. When he sees her, he coolly stubs out the cigarette between his long fingers.
“Miss Fu, what gave you the impression I was a good person?” He tilts his head slightly and leans closer. Only then does she realize that beneath his gentle, handsome exterior lies the dangerous undercurrent of a depraved mountain bandit. “You want to work with me? Livestream as a fake couple?”
He looks at her, his dark gaze suppressing the ripples she stirs in his heart, though not a trace of them shows on his face.
“Sorry, I never act. I only do the real thing.”
“Marry me. Don't regret it, and don't beg me to stop.”
Later, Fu Ning, who had impulsively married him, regrets it countless times.
Was the pain of working behind the scenes not enough for her? Why did she have to suffer through love in front of a camera too? This man has no heart.
Until their final livestream, when their contract is about to end.
They play a game: the loser has to choose between truth and dare. Ready to get divorced, Fu Ning chooses dare. The comments tell her to feed him a strawberry using anything but her hands.
Fu Ning's porcelain-pale skin immediately flushes. Her lips glisten as she nearly bites through them. She steels herself,
picks up a piece of diced strawberry, holds it in her mouth, and approaches the man who seems so cold and abstinent that he could never have any worldly desires.
He watches her, completely at ease, his whole body radiating cold restraint.
Even his Adam's apple doesn't move. It's as if she were no different from a stray cat or dog by the roadside.
Just as she's about to touch him,
his beautiful, distant eyes move lazily. He turns his head, and his soft lips brush past the corner of hers, carrying the sweet scent of strawberries.
Fu Ning's anger and hurt reach their peak together.
That's it! She's done!
At the same time,
the livestream screen suddenly goes dark, the camera turned face down.
In the shadowy corner, hidden from everyone's view, the man's voice, usually so cool and indifferent, finally breaks through the screen. It's hoarse, tinged with a possessiveness he himself hasn't noticed.
“Want to kiss me? You don't have to go to all that trouble.”
“No, you're the one who wants to kiss me! Mmph... mm...”
“Yeah, I do want to kiss you.”
“I was actually the one who lost the game just now. I chose truth.”
“Don't divorce me, okay?”
Holy crap!!! The viewers, who want to jump into their phones but can't see a thing, go wild.
[A marriage arranged by the fans and handpicked for us is the best! Who would've thought we only wanted to watch two people who barely know each other pretend to be lovey-dovey for the viewers, and it would turn out to be real!]
Theme: Finding the one true sweetness that belongs to you in a world full of liars and false affection