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The Political Wife is set in the upper echelons of Seoul's power structure, where marriage is currency, love is liability, and authenticity is the most dangerous weapon of all.
When Hong In-ah, CEO of Cheongwoon Daily News, flees her arranged marriage to Baek Saeon-son of the President of Korea and CEO of Baek Industries-her younger sister Heejoo is forced into the role of bride less than twenty-four hours before the wedding. What begins as a marriage of convenience between two strangers evolves into a high-stakes battle of wills: Saeon, a man who has sacrificed his humanity for his family's political dynasty, and Heejoo, a woman who refuses to surrender her soul for any price.
Trapped in a gilded cage of political necessity, they must navigate public scrutiny, family machinations, and their own fundamental incompatibility-he believes in image above all, she believes in truth at any cost-while the world watches their every breath for signs of weakness.
As they move from enemies to allies to something neither prepared for, they must decide whether love is worth the destruction of the legacies that built them.