A Contractual Marriage? Hell No!

Episode 1

Keira Snow wakes up in a panic after a drunken night she can't fully remember — and the man involved is Nolan Blair, the CEO of her company. She's convinced she's the one who crossed the line, and the guilt hits hard. Her first instinct is escape: she asks her friend Wanqi to help her resign before anyone finds out. But the morning isn't done with her yet. A driver arrives to collect her for work, and every excuse she scrambles for falls flat. Keira's left wondering what exactly happened — and terrified that Nolan already knows.

Episode 2

Nolan isn't letting the night go. He orders his assistant to track down the owner of a single earring left behind, and he wants her brought to him directly. His suspicion quickly turns toward Keira's mother, whom he suspects of planting a woman to sabotage his engagement. Meanwhile, the hotel's records offer nothing: only VIP gold-card guests could access that floor, and no woman checked in that night. Nolan's assistant even suggests he simply dreamed it all. But the missing earring says otherwise — and Nolan isn't the type to let a loose end stay loose.

Episode 3

Keira tries to bury the whole thing and get out clean, asking Wanqi to push her resignation through HR immediately. Wanqi pushes back hard: if Keira quits, her parasitic parents will just sell her off, and who'll pay the mortgage? The pressure is relentless. Then Keira's mother calls — her brother needs money again, this time for tuition and a 200,000 renovation bill. Keira is cornered from every side. At the office, Nolan's assistant escorts a guest in, and Keira's plan to vanish quietly starts to look impossible.

Episode 4

Nolan tests Keira directly — the perfume she's wearing matches the woman from that night exactly. Keira deflects, insisting it's just a scent she's worn for ages, and her flustered over-explaining only makes her look guiltier. When they try to pull the hotel security footage, the system conveniently fails, freezing right at the crucial moment. The driver who took Nolan back that night confirms the door was locked and no one entered afterward. The evidence is slipping away from Nolan — and Keira is quietly relieved, even as his suspicion settles squarely on her.

Episode 5

Keira's mother calls again, this time demanding Keira hand over her entire salary so the family can buy her brother a house. Keira finally snaps — she's paid his tuition and living costs for years, and she's drowning. She refuses, and the call ends in accusations of selfishness. At work, Nolan needles her about being jumpy, and Keira can barely hold it together. Then his assistant pulls him aside with something urgent and confidential — and the look on Nolan's face suggests the investigation just took a sharp turn. Keira has no idea how close the truth is.

Episode 6

The truth lands: Keira's mother drugged him that night, and the woman was a tool she planted to wreck his engagement — now hidden away. Nolan is furious at being played, but his father's deadline looms: marry into a set alliance before thirty, or forfeit thirty percent of the company's shares. Nolan refuses to marry for the shares and vows to find the woman within a month. Meanwhile, Keira tries to buy back the earring from a street seller for a hundred yuan — and then confesses to Wanqi that she slept with her boss.

Episode 7

Keira panics — the hotel footage failed, but the assistant found her hair and is running DNA checks. Wanqi reminds her exactly what happened to the last person who crossed the CEO. Nolan calls Keira into his office and asks about the earring; she claims she handed it to lost-and-found. But he's already one step ahead, producing the earring his assistant fished out of a trash can outside. Cornered, Keira insists the style is common among the company's female staff. Nolan coolly notes her position is secure — then asks whether she has a boyfriend.

Episode 8

Keira asks Wanqi whether executive assistants are banned from dating — they aren't, which only deepens her fear that Nolan is targeting her on purpose. Wanqi suggests an escape: a month-long maritime business trip nobody has claimed yet. If Keira disappears for a month, the investigation may just fizzle out. Then her mother calls with "good news" — her brother's girlfriend is pregnant, and the bride price is 500,000. Keira refuses to bankroll her brother's wedding, and the call collapses into insults and accusations of ingratitude.

Episode 9

Keira stands her ground with her mother — she has no money, and she won't be guilted into paying for her brother's wedding. Shaken but resolute, she heads to the project department to get the maritime contract approved. A manager signs off quickly and tells her a company car will pick her up at 8:30 sharp. The manager's remark stings: of course someone from the CEO's office would dare take on a project the vice president is personally overseeing. Keira thinks she's finally bought herself a month of distance. She has no idea who's waiting in that car.

Episode 10

Keira boards what she assumes is the maritime project's car — only to find Nolan already inside. He's personally running the project, so they'll be traveling together. Her escape plan just became a trap. Nolan immediately notices her perfume again, the same scent as the woman from that night, and remarks that he thought his earlier words had stuck with her. Keira tries to play it cool and fails badly. As the car pulls away, her mother's voice rings out somewhere behind them, shouting after her.