Just as Rong Lu, the young master of the Rong family, debuts in show business, his family goes bankrupt and is left with a huge amount of debt.
With nowhere else to turn, Rong Lu seeks out his arranged fiance, Pei Yu, heir to the Pei Group.
Rong Lu asks him, "Is our engagement still on?"
Pei Yu opposes arranged marriages. His impression of Rong Lu can be summed up in four words: ridiculously spoiled. Not his type at all.
Pei Yu says coldly, "It's off."
Since the marriage was arranged by their elders, Rong Lu still moves into the Pei family home.
On the surface, he's Pei Yu's fiance. In practice, he's just Pei Yu's assistant, and Pei Yu pays him a salary every month.
Everyone says Pei Yu is cold and ruthless, deeply suspicious, and hard to approach.
On his first day in the Pei home, Rong Lu dutifully carries his bedding to the sofa to sleep. He'll do his best not to annoy Pei Yu.
Rong Lu curls up on the sofa. His oversized pajamas reveal one smooth, pale shoulder, and his whole face looks wronged.
Pei Yu hadn't expected him to be so well-behaved. His gaze darkens, then he looks away. "Go sleep in the bed."
Rong Lu asks, "What about you?"
Pei Yu doesn't answer and leaves the bedroom.
It's the first time Pei Yu has slept in the guest room while in his own home.
Rong Lu's job is simple: go wherever Pei Yu goes, and occasionally act in a production to save a little spending money.
Once, Rong Lu is filming on a set funded by Pei Yu's company when a prop knocks a bump onto his head. Filming has to be postponed, costing over a million a day.
Pei Yu immediately drops everything and rushes over, his face dark with anger.
Rong Lu's eyes fill with tears. "I'm sorry. I ruined everything."
That day, Pei Yu flies into a terrible rage.
That night, the headline on the trending list reads: Young actor Rong Lu ruins filming. His fiance will break off their engagement, and the Pei family will cast him aside. Just wait and see!
At the center of the rumors, Rong Lu, supposedly dumped and abandoned, snuggles under a blanket and pouts at Pei Yu. "It hurts... My forehead really hurts."
Pei Yu carries him and applies medicine, spending ages comforting him. He has no time to pay attention to the rumors online.
Rong Lu says, "You were so fierce earlier."
Pei Yu replies, "If someone is irresponsible at work and makes a mistake, they deserve to be scolded."
Pei Yu hadn't scolded Rong Lu at all. Someone else had taken the blame.
Rong Lu loves checking his savings balance. He tells Pei Yu, "Once I save a little more, just a little more, I'll have almost paid off the debt. Then we can officially break off our engagement."
"You think you can leave once the debt is paid?" Pei Yu gives a low laugh, his smile full of schemes and menace. "Then you might never pay it off."
Rong Lu's eyes redden as he protests, "You're bullying me! I don't want to work for the Pei family for the rest of my life!"
A helpless look flashes through Pei Yu's eyes.
Fool. I just can't bear to let you go.
A cold, ruthless CEO who goes soft for his lover x a pampered young master who loves money and whose family has fallen on hard times
Theme: Love life, and be kind to yourself.
