My "Poor" Contract Husband is a Billionaire

About this drama

Two thousand a month is the entire romance contract, and the copy states it with a straight face. A down-on-her-luck female designer flees an arranged family marriage, and in her haste she marries a poor bartender for a monthly salary of 2,000. The math of the setup is the joke and the trap at once: she is buying distance from one cage with a cheap lease on another, and both men are lying about the size of their worlds. The fiancé's arrangement is family-scripted. The bartender's poverty is a costume, because the copy's turn is one sentence long and does not blink. Little does she know he is a trillionaire who has secretly cleared every obstacle in her path. Two hundred thirty-three characters total, so this summary cannot tell you which obstacles, when they were cleared, or whether the clearing was protection or engineering, because none of that is written down. What is written down is the asymmetry of knowledge, which is the genre's oldest fuel: she thinks she is the desperate one in the marriage of convenience, and every scene she plays calm is actually a performance for an audience of one who already knows the ending. Thirty-nine episodes are listed. Whether the designer discovers the truth, how the fake poverty unravels, and what the family that arranged her first marriage does about the second are all outside the listing.

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