Qin Shi is annoyed with Wang Jiesen due to his ulterior motives. Luckily, she knows where Tao Junhui will go for investigation so she follows him. She can get rid of Wang Jiesen while she can step in the case.

Ulterior Motives

Yang Mi

Xu Kai

Li Zefeng

Tang Jingmei

Wang Zixuan

Zhang Bojia

Li Xiaofeng

He Fengtian

Wang Gongliang

Jiang Kai

Make A Deal

A Past Of Yang Hua

Qin Shi seems to be the winner of life. Just turned 30, she's already a senior associate at Honesty & Prudence, with a husband that everyone's jealous of. But Qin Shi is not satisfied yet with all these. What she is aiming for is to join the Corporate Department of the company. (Source: Viu)

The Winner Of Life

The news is soon spread around the office. Everyone immediately adjusts their attitude. They all know that whoever is able to get Ms. Lan as their client will be able to go to the 11th floor. Li Dai will be bringing an assistant to the 11th floor, so everybody wants to be that assistant. (Source: Viu)

The 11th Floor

Before going to the charity gala, Qin Shi first goes to visit Yang Hua's family with him. What she's trying to do is to get Yang Hua's mother to surrender. But things are not as simple as she expects, because Yang Hua's mother knows her son too well. (Source: Viu)

The Gala

Qin Shi escapes but is soon taken away by Tao Junhui. Junhui questions why Qin Shi is here. He wonders where Qin Shi's ambition in the past has gone. Then Yang Hua turns up and rescues Qin Shi like a knight. (Source: Viu)

Allergy

Yang Hua remembers his luggage is still at Qin Shi's, so he calls her. Qin Shi is very concerned about the problem with Lowe & Magnolia that Yang Hua talked about. Yang Hua then shows his analysis of why there's something fishy about the company. (Source: Viu)

Cohabitation

Honesty & Prudence is now in danger. Jin finally decides to keep Lowe's secret for the sake of the law firm. After learning that the analysis is made by Yang Hua, Jin immediately asks Qin Shi to keep Yang Hua's mouth shut. (Source: Viu)

New Lifestyle

Tao Junhui turns up near Qin Shi's place, where the two used to live together. He has been thinking a lot about their past. Then he bumps into Yang Hua, who is on his way home. (Source: Viu)

The Boyfriend

Qin Shi receives an email from Wu Fei on the way to work, and immediately gets an urgent call from Tang Yihui. Zhao Dan is coming to the office, and she needs Qin Shi's help. (Source: Viu)

The Meeting on the 11th Floor

The relationship between the allies has subtle changes. Meanwhile, Li Dai finds out a surprising truth about their real relationship relying on the information given by Yang Hua's mother. (Source: Viu)

Subtle Changes

Qin Shi joins a party with Yang Hua, who is uncomfortable with it due to his identity. Li Dai also attends the party as a candidate for the partnership of the law firm. Li Dai wants to investigate the secret between them. (Source: Viu)

Attending the Party

While Qin Shi and Meimei are enjoying their game, Meimei dresses up suddenly after receiving a call. Although Meimei seems not to care about Wenyu, she still wants to give Vivian a lesson. (Source: Viu)

Strange Call

Li Dai and Qin Shi pretend to be reluctant to take the case. However, they order their assistants to take action when returning to their office and hope to take the case successfully. Meanwhile, Qin Shi remembers that Tang Yihui has told her not to get the case since it is a hot potato. (Source: Viu)

A Hot Potato

Qin Shi and Yanghua rush to the airport and found Ms. Lan waiting for Pang Dingfang. They accompany her till midnight until Ms. Lan understands that she's been deceived. Ms. Lan decides to file for divorce and requests Qin Shi to take this case.

Divorce

Tao Junhui asks Qin Shi for a meet-up after work. Meanwhile, in the office, Qin Shi receives a parcel, threatening her to stay out of it. As she is on her way to meet Junhui, some gangsters appear. (Source: Viu)

Stay Out Of This

Li Dai shows Qin Shi a recording about her secret to prove that she and Yang Hua haven't gotten married yet. Li Dai says she will not expose her secret in thanks for her help. However, Li Dai hopes she quits the competition. Qin Shi discusses the solution with Yang Hua at home. (Source: Viu)

Qin Shi's Secret

Qin Shi questions why Yang Hua suddenly suggests getting married with her. Yang Hua pretends not to like her and also lists the benefits of their sham marriage. Yang Hua even prepares a prenuptial agreement. (Source: Viu)

Prenuptial Agreement

Qin Shi tells the truth about the breakup with Tao Junhui to her family. Since Tao's family regards the children of a broken family as bad, she could not tell him the real situation about her family. (Source: Viu)

The Abnormal Family

Qin Shi and Yang Hua hurry to the Bureau of Civil Affairs to get a marriage certificate after getting their household registration booklets. Actually, Both of them want to start a romantic relationship but they are hesitant because of the Prenuptial Agreement. (Source: Viu)

A Marriage Certificate

Yang Hua confesses his love to Qin Shi on the phone after getting drunk. Yang Hua's best friend tells her not to hurt Yang Hua when she pick him up in the restaurant.

Confessing His Love

When Qin Shi is tormented by unfamiliar economic-related laws and regulations, she receives a call from Meimei. Meimei regrets to let Wenyu manage the business. However, Wenyu is not good at management, and someone calls Meimei to pick up his slack.

Picking Up Slack

Qin Shi cannot believe that her sham marriage will come true, she is so nervous about it. Yang Hua always keeps her company and supports her although there are a lot of complicated steps and process in the wedding.

Wedding

Yang Hua is hard to find a job so he hopes his friend, Cai Liang to help him. Cai Liang tells Yang Hua that there is a position in his department but it may not be suitable for him since he needs to communicate with others frequently. Unbelievably, Yang Hua accepts his recommendation. Yang Hua's parents are happy with it.

New Job

Yang Hua hates to see Qin Shi who works at the Archives, He also feels jealous when Tao Junhui cares about her. Qin Shi tells him that Tao Junhui believes she has an affair with Yang Hua when they break up before.

Jealousy

On behalf of Li Dai's client, Cao Yiren, she discusses prenuptial agreement with Qin Shi's Firm. As the enemy of Qin Shi, Li Dai knows her well, also she tells Qin Shi about the rich woman who buy a watch to thank her client only. Thus, there is nothing between them.

True Love?

Wu Fei finds out about the contract between her father and her boss, Tang Yihui. Her father hopes to deter her from getting married to Tao Junhui but he fails. Therefore, Wu Fei's father plays his trump card and posted to her some photos capturing intimate behavior between Tao Junhui and Qin Shi.

The Secret Contract

After receiving the photo, Wu Fei confronted Tang Yihui angrily but Tang says suspicion and jealousy are useless at this moment. A prenuptial agreement is a touchstone for testing their relationship between them.

Touchstone

Tao Junhui and Wu Fei meet each other's parents in the restaurant. Junhui's mother is pleased that Mr. Wu bought an apartment. But when she realizes Junhui signed the prenup, she feels that Mr. Wu did not respect her son.

Meeting the Parents

Qin Shi and Yang Hua arrive the ballroom only to realize this is not a private party, but an award ceremony which has gathered the people of finance industry. Yang Hua who is usually not a social person, becomes the center of attention.

Mr. Wang's Appearance

Yang Hua has inferiority complex about his past years. Qin Shi blames herself for bringing him to socialize. Yang Hua thinks this is not her fault. Instead, he is willing to tell her about his experience for the first time.

When Tao Junhui and Wu Fei are having dinner, he proposes to withdraw from He Dongna's case. However, Wu Fei tells him that she has already made a deal with Tang Yihui. If he can win in the this case, he will get promoted.

Li Dai tells Qin Shi about Yanghua who may be framed by someone else, instead of Shao Jianxiang. It makes Qin Shi very concerned. Wang Jiesen always harasses Qin Shi, and also invite her to travel to Hangzhou together.

Who Is The Culprit?

Qin Shi questions that why she is gifted a luxury car and prize by her company. Her colleague tells her the truth about Yang Hua's injury. In order to protecting Qin Shi, Yang Hua shows the evidence about illegal practice of Wang Jiesen to Mr. Jin.

Reward

Qin Shi and Yang Hua are invited to join the gathering by Tang Yihui. At the same time, Qin Shi is alert that there will be a good news. Unsurprisingly, Tang Yihui announces they get the investment and two lawyers enter the Top100 in the country. She also announces Qin Shi gets promoted to be one of the partner of the firm.

A Good News

Yang Hua discovers there is a trap so he immediately tries to prevent Qin Shi from signing the contract. However, Qin Shi has already confessed the truth to her boss, Mr. Jin, even voices for the unfair treatment of female workers in the firm.

Trap

Tao Junhui confesses his love to Qin Shi after getting drunk. He also requests her to end the sham marriage with Yang Hua and then get married with him. In order to get rid of Tao Junhui, she says she is reluctant to remarry or divorce. Unexpectedly, Yang Hua hears her words.

Drunken Brawl

Tao Junhui refused to undertake the labor dispute with Yao Yao for Tianhang. Tang Yihui called Qin Shi back to the law firm for this task. She also promised that Qin Shi would be able to return to the 11th floor as long as she handled the case well.

Professional Ethics

Qin Shi visits Yao Yao. She rehearsed countless times in her mind the cooperation declaration for justice, as long as she added a condition at the end that Yao Yao should stay away from Yang Hua, but when she said it, it became an impatient rebuke and question...

The Cooperation Declaration

Tang Yihui, who finds out that Qin Shi helps Yao Yao to sue her previous employer for the sexual harassment, compels Qin Shi to stop it immediately. Qin Shi disdains to stay, and also chooses to resign as she thinks the firm becomes unprincipled.

Resignation

Qin Shi knows Yang Hua constantly gives her a hand with the lawsuit. Qin Shi snatches his phone when Gangzi is chatting with Yang Hua on the phone. She asks Yang Hua to choose one between her and Yao Yao. In order to stimulate Qin Shi, Yao Yao says she will go back to Australia with her son and Yang Hua, even holding hand with Yang Hua, who appears outside the restaurant.

Either One

Elite lawyer Qin Shi and resident homebody Yang Hua who got "married" for their own purposes unexpectedly find true love in each other. Together, they walk hand in hand towards a happy and fruitful life.

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