Contract Marriage: The President’s Stand-in Lover

To save her family’s crumbling business, Vivian Lin is forced into a three-year marriage contract with Ethan Gu, a powerful and calculating business magnate.

It’s a cold-blooded deal  she gets the funds to rescue her father’s company, and he gains the perfect façade to ease his ailing grandfather’s mind.

At the start, their boundaries are crystal clear: he’s distant, composed, and never forgets to remind her, “Don’t cross the line.”

She, in turn, plays the role of the dutiful wife to perfection  polite smiles, poised gestures, and a heart carefully hidden behind restraint.

But as they stand hand in hand at countless public events, their rehearsed affection begins to feel dangerously real.

A mysterious woman surfaces during their Paris honeymoon.

An unexpected encounter with her ex-boyfriend at a charity gala reignites old memories.

And beneath their elegant pretenses, something fragile and genuine begins to bloom.

Then one night, Vivian stumbles upon a photograph in Ethan’s study  a woman who looks eerily like her. In that moment, she realizes she might have only ever been someone’s replacement.

Yet what she doesn’t know is that Ethan’s heart has already betrayed the deal  somewhere between their practiced smiles and stolen glances, he fell for her.

This is a story of a marriage born from transaction, tested by truth, and transformed by love.

When the contract expires and the secret of the “substitute” comes to light  will they walk away from each other, or finally face the love that was never part of the plan?