The Divorce Is Invalid, Lawyer Lu, Please Sign

Lu Huaizhou stands at the very top of Haicheng's legal world. Whatever the case, he is as cool and precise as a machine. But at the words “Jiang Ci,” every law and statute automatically ceases to apply.

Jiang Ci is the least favored daughter of the Jiang family. Her mother died young, her father favors others, and her stepmother, Zhou Yaqin, treats her as a bargaining chip for an arranged marriage. At a family banquet, she is set up to “catch” her fiance, Song Shiyan, in the middle of an affair with her stepsister, Jiang Yue. As she flees in humiliation, she stops a car with Lu Huaizhou inside.

The next day, Lu Huaizhou arrives at the Jiang residence with a marriage contract. “Miss Jiang, marry me, and I'll help you reclaim what your mother left behind.”

Jiang Ci thinks it will be a marriage of convenience, with a two-year term and no interference in each other's lives. After the wedding, Lu Huaizhou is considerate and attentive, while keeping clear boundaries. Jiang Ci even thinks she has found a good man.

Until the first time she asks for a divorce.

Outside the courthouse, Lu Huaizhou leisurely turns through the agreement she handed him, then looks up with a smile.

“Jiang Ci, do you know how long I've been preparing to make sure you can't divorce me?”

Only then does Jiang Ci realize that the supposed “chance encounter,” their supposed “mutual benefit,” and Lu Huaizhou's supposed “post-marital boundaries” are all part of a web he has spun, strand by strand, over five years. From the moment she stepped into that car, she was already caught in it.

And things get even more complicated: Lu Huaizhou's ex-girlfriend, Shen Yanqing, is now the lawyer Zhou Yaqin hired at great expense, representing the Jiang family against him. She's not there to steal her man, but she understands better than any rival that Lu Huaizhou's way of loving someone is to ensnare them in clauses of his own making.