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Engaging recap (main plot + standout moments)

A woman (Wei Lan) narrates her long-running, complicated marriage to her CEO boss, Lu Shaoyan—hidden for three years—while detailing how she’s repeatedly humiliated at work, how rumors spiral, and how her jealousy and pride collide with his cold, “separate public from private” logic.

The story hits its breaking point after a disastrous project loss, escalating health scares, and a final, grinding revelation: he’s been quietly choosing other people over her—even when he claims he’s being fair.

Year-by-year highlights

Year 1: Jealousy turns into control

• She complains that her superiors and office politics have made her miserable and wants to go public.
• Her husband (Lu Shaoyan) refuses, lecturing her that jealousy must have limits and she needs to understand right vs wrong.

Year 2: Her biggest humiliation comes with the return/transfer of a “shipping” rival

• A former love interest-like figure (Trang Tư Kỳ, also tied to her husband’s past) is transferred in.
• Colleagues romanticize the pair, and Wei Lan becomes furious—wanting to “declare sovereignty.”
• Lu Shaoyan shuts her down coldly, refusing her attempt to make her feelings public.

Year 3: A project she fought for—thrown away

• After losing a competition, her all-night project is carelessly tossed in the trash.
• She cries, physically distressed and socially powerless—while he remains emotionally detached.
• Even when he later suggests making their marriage public “to avoid gossip,” she panics about embarrassment and demands a divorce instead—burying the marriage in secrecy.

The health scare + joke-heavy office reaction

• She believes she suffered a miscarriage; rumors say an argument happened in a meeting room and she fainted.
• In truth, it’s hypoglycemia—but the company reacts as if it’s scandal-grade drama.
• A coworker makes crass remarks (“that much blood wasn’t a miscarriage”), and Lu Shaoyan responds intensely and urgently—speeding through red lights—finally offering the first genuinely gentle line of the day.
• A major comedic beat: another friend/colleague (Jiang Ning) jokes through the hospital about “being Lu Shaoyan’s wife” while her lips nearly blur between truth and rumor, and drops comments that make her awkward once Lu returns with washed grapes.

The turning point: the relationship goes public—until it doesn’t

• Lu insists they go public to kill gossip.
• Wei Lan resists fiercely, arguing she can’t afford lifelong ridicule and that Lu’s public posture is cowardly.
• Later, it becomes clear she resists because her power at work depends on optics, approval, and “not being laughed at.”

The central betrayal: the project vote (and the blame game)

• Wei Lan works herself to the bone for a major project while another figure (Emily / a key manager) is forced into maternity leave.
• Wei Lan is promoted into Emily’s role—meaning she must compete directly with Trang Tư Kỳ.
• At the final meeting, Wei Lan loses—and the decisive detail lands hard: the deciding vote comes from Lu Shaoyan, who earlier claimed he keeps private vs public separate.
• Wei Lan confronts him while sobbing; he responds with vague, cutting observations instead of emotional support.
• She slaps him and faints. He coldly frames it as her “unreasonable behavior” and forces her to stay under his terms.

Emily, class power, and how Wei Lan’s “dream” is manufactured

• Emily (surprisingly poised and strategic) calls out the company’s logic: losing isn’t proof of wrongness—results prove truth.
• Wei Lan resigns after learning she can no longer function safely inside the political machine.
• The story also reveals Wei Lan’s deeper motive: she once dreamed of being a “pampered rich wife.” Later, she built herself through ambition to avoid dependency—yet the marriage still controls what she can “be seen as.”

The ring scandal + public “mourning” farewell parties

• Wei Lan is humiliated when her romantic rival bumps into her and it becomes messy—until Lu Shaoyan is shown intervening.
• A ring is involved: a colleague asks whose ring it is; it matches Lu’s. Lu throws it back into Wei Lan’s box as if to “reassign” the truth publicly while keeping control of the narrative.
• Her farewell parties are weirdly tense—people act like she might be “the wife” but don’t want to be caught wrong, turning her exit into a social puzzle.
• Jiang Ning jokes about Wei Lan’s ability to blend in and even teases the “fake Trang” situation (adding another comedic/social layer to the rumor war).

Ending: divorce, success, and a bitter-but-satisfying self-rewrite of the dream

• Lu Shaoyan and Wei Lan ultimately divorce.
• He’s financially “generous,” but most of the money is tied to his premarital property—so she doesn’t get the glamorous compensation she hoped for.
• Wei Lan reframes her future as “worldly success” and regains agency.
• She later sees Lu again at a party, where he looks shaken and fixated—suggesting that after losing her, he finally understands what she represented.
• She also reveals her current life: a new marriage where she has money, support, and—importantly—someone whose behavior doesn’t require her to ask permission for basic identity.

Key jokes / notable reactions

• Office miscarriage rumor vs reality: coworkers treat her condition like gossip theater; Lu’s intense hospital reaction contrasts sharply with their casual cruelty.
• Hospital humor: Jiang Ning’s running jokes about “CEO paying” and “extorting money,” plus the grapes moment—when she realizes she’s been too loud.
• Project-vote rage: the decisive vote from Lu becomes the emotional punchline—his “fairness” collapses when he chooses Trang Tư Kỳ.
• Ring scandal: public uncertainty and Lu throwing the ring into Wei Lan’s box—humiliating and symbolic (truth handled like property).
• Farewell party awkwardness: everyone behaves like they’re attending a social minefield, while still toasting her resilience.

Main theme / what the story is “really” about

Wei Lan is fighting a double battle:

1) against workplace politics and misogynistic/rival-shipping culture, and 2) against a marriage where her visibility, dignity, and even career fate depend on her husband’s comfort—until she finally escapes and rewrites her dream on her own terms.

Personalities appearing

• Wei Lan (narrator): the wife/employee, repeatedly humiliated and then self-liberated.
• Lu Shaoyan / CEO Lu: the cold, controlling husband/boss who hides the marriage and later sabotages her at the decisive vote.
• Trang Tư Kỳ: the rival figure tied to Lu’s past; frequently treated as the “better match.”
• Jiang Ning: close colleague/friend; comedic, socially sharp, spreads/reflects rumors.
• Emily: another key manager; poised mentor-like presence; later maternity leave and conflict around performance/fate.
• Zhuang Siqi: Lu’s former girlfriend and emotional history link (explains Lu’s worldview and mother’s favoritism/fear).
• Lu Shaoyuan’s mother (Mrs. Lu): influential gatekeeper tied to hiring, disapproval, and pressure.