The CEO's Secret Wife

About this drama

The source for this entry is a single question of 55 characters, the shortest logline in this batch: can a fake marriage bring a second chance at true love? Nothing else is provided, and the question mark is doing all the work a synopsis usually does. A question logline differs from a declarative one in one structural way: it refuses to answer itself, so the series is the answer. Fake marriage names the engine, the contract, the cohabitation, the deadline. Second chance names the history, which implies the spouses are not strangers and the fake marriage is not the first marriage, or at least not the first love. True love is the stake the question pretends to doubt. The whole premise fits inside one interrogative, and every plot question beyond it, who they are, why it is fake, why it is second, is held. Thirty-five episodes is the batch's shortest runway, which suits a question this small: the fake has a term, the term has an end, and the answer is the finale. The title's CEO points at payroll power as the engine, which is inference from one word. It is thirty-five episodes, tied for the shortest run in this batch, with 1,174 views, toward the lower end.

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