Love Is My Paycheck

Episode 1

Katie Smith has a plan for her life: do nothing and live off her wealthy parents. That plan collapses fast when they throw her out and tell her to survive three months on her own. Her monthly spending runs to at least 300,000, so she needs a miracle job.

Her best friend Michelle Young has one. Michelle's young uncle is a wealthy CEO hunting for a wife, and the salary is a million a month. Katie doesn't hesitate. She walks straight into the interview and announces she's there to apply for the wife position.

Episode 2

The interview gets blunt fast. Asked why she wants the job, Katie admits the truth: free food, free room, a million a month, and nowhere else to go.

Michelle's young uncle agrees, but sets two conditions. The marriage lasts one year, and nobody can know she's his wife during that time. The second condition is his grandfather's approval.

That part is easy. The grandfather is thrilled, offering a monthly allowance and an extra large sum the moment they show him the marriage certificate. Katie happily calls him her real grandfather.

Episode 3

With the deal nearly sealed, the two exchange contact details, and Katie and Michelle head off. But there's more to the arrangement than money.

The uncle reveals his real reason for the one-year term. It's time set aside for himself. If his wife doesn't want him and asks for a divorce, she can still walk away with half his assets and never live worse than anyone else. His staff call him a hopeless romantic.

Meanwhile, trouble brews on the other side. Someone has spotted Michelle ordering at a club and wants her card cut off and her thrown out of the house.

Episode 4

The next morning brings a rendezvous at the marriage registration office. Before that, Michelle's young uncle hands Katie a card with 100,000 on it, her monthly allowance. Her first instinct: take Michelle out to celebrate at the club. He forbids it.

So she spends instead at the city's most expensive hotel, eating and sleeping in style. That's where two former college classmates find her, sneering that she looks half-starved and aged, mocking her as a married woman no one wanted. They bring up an old humiliation, claiming she was dumped like a dog.

Episode 5

The classmates' cruelty turns physical. They slap and taunt Katie, then order their bodyguards to attack. Outnumbered and cornered, Katie plays her only card: her husband.

She warns them he's a top executive at a powerful group, and that he'll crush them like ants. They laugh, daring her to prove it. Then a voice cuts through the chaos, demanding to know who dares touch his wife. Her husband has arrived.

Episode 6

Her husband walks in, and Katie immediately points out the classmates who started it. She reminds him they bullied her back in school and are now attacking her over a meal.

The pair sneer back, mocking the couple as a tacky older woman and a greasy man, a perfect match. He doesn't argue. He orders them dragged over to kneel and apologize to his wife.

The classmates scramble for leverage, insisting this hotel belongs to his group and he can't cause trouble here. They've already called the manager. Then the manager arrives and recognizes him.

Episode 7

The manager turns out to be in league with the classmates, and the numbers are against Katie's side. Her husband's identity is her only weapon, and the classmates refuse to believe it.

One of them insists her husband is just a mid-level executive, and that everyone knows she can't even control a kept man, let alone reach someone like the boss. Katie makes a bet: if she calls him and he acknowledges her, they kneel and admit they're fools.

The catch is that her uncle never acknowledges relatives, which is exactly why the classmates are so smug. Katie decides to try anyway.

Episode 8

Katie calls her husband and tells him she's in trouble at the hotel, begging him to come save her. On his end, a meeting is paused, and he tells his people to head to the hotel.

Back in the lobby, the classmates still mock her, calling her a discarded secondhand woman and claiming the boss would never want her. Even his own staff say their president isn't married and keeps away from women.

The classmates decide they've waited long enough and move to attack. Katie stands her ground as they close in.

Episode 9

The classmates abandon all pretense. When Katie protests that they're going back on their word, they tell her that only the weak need reasons, and that strength itself is the truth. They order their men to grab Katie and Michelle.

Katie tells Michelle to run, but Michelle refuses to abandon her, and the two are cornered. Their captors demand they kneel and beg, even bark like dogs, promising to let them go if they humiliate themselves. Katie spits back a refusal.

Just as things look hopeless, a voice demands to know who dares bully his people.