Emma must marry within thirty days per her grandmother’s will, or lose the ancestral house. Struggling with debts, medical bills and greedy developers, she is cornered by desperation. Dismissed by mocking relatives, she turns to her boyfriend, only to catch him kissing her best friend. "You are too plain," he says without remorse. Alone and broken in the rain, Emma collapses until a man shelters her with a black umbrella. "If you only need a marriage, I can help you," Luca offers. A high-ranking executive needing a wife for the board, he proposes a six-month contract with no intimacy or interference. Knowing how absurd it is, Emma signs and becomes his lawful wife, believing it to be nothing but a mutually beneficial deal. She never realizes she has married the city’s most dangerous secret.
