Su Qingyan, the female CEO of the Qingyan Group, has been widowed for four years and is raising two children on her own. At kindergarten, her daughter is called a "wild child," while her son has begun to wonder whether "Daddy" even exists.
She desperately needs a man to pretend to be the children's father.
Lu Zeyan is a highly intelligent con artist who preys on rich women. He hates wealthy women who treat men like playthings most of all. He plans to set a trap and swallow up her assets, but she turns the tables and throws a contract at him:
Get plastic surgery to look like her late husband, sign on for a three-year fake marriage, and play the role of a model father.
"Your life is what you're putting on the line. Sign, or don't?"
Lu Zeyan signs. He swears he'll make her kneel and beg him to stop.
But on his first day in the mansion, three-year-old Su Nian runs up and hugs his leg, calling out "Daddy" in her sweet little voice. Precocious Su Yu stands on the stairs, quietly studying him with eyes so clear they seem able to see through every scheme of his.
He fries an egg for Su Nian, but burns it. Su Nian says, "Daddy is the best."
He uses parenting theories as an excuse to slack off, but Su Yu opens Montessori and exposes him on the spot.
He should have watched with indifference, but when Su Nian gets a fever and clutches his hand, crying, "Daddy, don't go," he calls off the carefully planned operation he'd spent two months arranging.
He should have shattered her weakness, but when she curls up trembling in a darkroom in front of her late husband's photograph, he stands outside the door and, for the first time, doesn't want to stab her in the back.
"Boss, are you hunting her, or is she hunting you?"
Lu Zeyan doesn't answer.
Because he doesn't know himself: at the end of that contract, will she be the one kneeling, or will he be the one admitting defeat?
The hunter becomes the bait, and the predator walks into the cage. But whoever falls first loses everything.
