Professor Lingling Kwong never wanted a wife. Orm Kornnaphat never expected to become one. After promising her dying best friend that she'd protect his only daughter from the family waiting to take everything she owns, Ling agrees to a marriage that exists only on paper. It's temporary. It's practical. And it must remain a secret.

Ling (GIP) One devastating, rainy night changes two lives forever. ​For Orm, it's the night her life falls apart. Heartbroken and dumped after refusing to compromise her values, she wanders the city streets completely numb-until a blinding flash of headlights changes everything. ​For Ling, it's the night her happily-ever-after is brutally stolen from her. A sudden crash takes her new wife's life, leaving Ling consumed by a burning, relentless thirst for revenge against the drunk girl who caused it. ​When Ling orchestrates a cruel, elaborate trap-forcing a desperate Orm into a fake marriage built entirely on lies-she plans to shatter Orm the way her own heart was shattered. She promises herself she will remain cold, indifferent, and ruthless. But secrets have a way of unraveling, a hidden pregnancy changes the stakes, and the line between burning hate and consuming love begins to blur. ​Can a love born from vengeance ever survive the truth?

Lingling thought she already had everything she needed. Her life may not be perfect-juggling late-night study sessions as a criminology student while raising her little girl alone-but her daughter is her anchor, her reason to push through. She never asked for more, only to keep their small world safe. But what happens when the woman she once buried deep in her memory... the very mother of her child... the love she thought was gone forever... suddenly comes back? And worse-Orm isn't just back. She wants her place again.