Last time we made a list on Top 10 Arranged Marriage Historical Chinese Dramas and it would be unfair if we left this topic without giving the modern version of the list, to balance everything and satisfy both Modern and Historical Chinese drama fans.
Top 10 Contract Marriage Modern Chinese Dramas.
1. Hello Mr. Gu (2021)
A CEO with an aversion to crowds enters a contractual marriage with an impoverished heiress. With opposing personalities, they initially butt heads, only to become one another’s confidants over time. These imperfect souls help each other heal as they fall in love.
2.Well-Intended Love (2019)
Needing assistance with her treatment, a third-rate actress with leukemia becomes involved with a CEO.
In order to receive a bone marrow transplant quickly in order to continue her career, Xia Lin enters into a secret marriage with Ling Yi Zhou, a company CEO. Despite the conspiracies and misunderstandings they experience, the two manage to find true love.
3.You are My Destiny (2020)
On-board a cruise ship bound for the Bahamas, two people from separate worlds have a chance encounter, transforming them into one another’s destiny. The mousy and unassertive admin assistant, Chen Jia Xin meets the handsome, educated, and charming Wang Xi Yi heir to a large toiletries conglomerate. Mistaken identities serve to complicate their impromptu one-night stand, which ensures further contact, once back on land.
Family pressures arise from the pregnancy that has Jia Xin agreeing to contract marriage with a divorce clause. The child once born, will remain with Xi Yi, who will marry the woman he loves, dancer, and long-time girlfriend, Shi Anna.
Meddling and miscommunication lead to a tragic event. A heart-broken Jia Xin runs away from her feelings and Xi Yi to Hungary where her friend and art broker Dylan is headquartered. Over the following three years, she will establish herself as a potter, thanks to the tutelage of a prominent mentor. Dylan is ever supportive and finds himself developing feelings for Jia Xin.
Separation from Jia Xin finds Xi Yi maturing into someone certain of desiring a family. Meanwhile, he must fend off the advances of the delusional Anna, who’s plotting to get him back. Dylan remains steadfast in his quest to locate his long-lost sister, with whom he was separated as a child.
Fate and a business deal will reunite Jia Xin and Xi Yi in Hungary. As their shared history and future possibilities converge it’s as if they had never been apart.
4.Perfect and Casual (2020)
This story revolves around the cold and icy “male god” professor Zhang Si Nian and the calm and sunny Yun Shu.
After a fractious first meeting, where Yun Shu dressed down the especially finicky Si Nian, she was shocked to find out that he was her university lecturer. Through a series of coincidental encounters, the two agreed to engage in a contractual marriage. As the feelings between them grow, how will they keep their relationship a secret from those around them?
5.Begin Again (2020)
It tells the story of a domineering female CEO and a warm doctor who turn a fake relationship into reality due to practical reasons. Having exchanged their ‘I do’s’, they start on a new chapter of their lives as they learn to fall in love.
Lu Fangning is the general manager of Luning Group, a large corporation in the business of home furniture. Lu Fangning is a woman who has it all – talented, beautiful and rich. Nearing her thirties, Lu Fangning succumbs to family pressures and decides that she urgently needs a husband with whom she will have a child.
Coincidentally, surgeon Ling Rui appears in front of her. Ling Rui is not only blessed with good looks but also has an angelic heart, which makes him the perfect candidate in the eyes of Lu Fangning. She schemes her way to his life and they finally become husband and wife. Lu Fangning eventually realizes the error in her ways and strives to be better. However, keeping a marriage is not as easy as it seems.
6. Unforgettable Love (2021)
The drama revolves around He Qiao Yan, CEO of Heshi Group, and Qin Yi Yue, a child psychologist. It tells the story of a rational and indifferent man and a soft, optimistic, considerate, and meticulous psychologist, whose relationship develops from acquaintance to love.
7.Love in Time (2020)
An unknown writer gets into a contract marriage with a high-ranking officer of an investment company to solve her personal crisis. They happened to be desk mates in school. During their fake marriage, the two begin to slowly understand each other and gradually fall in love.
8.Cute Programmer (2021)
After falling in love with genius programmer Jiang Yi Cheng, Lu Li enrolls into the school he once studied at, and also took up the same major – calculus. Setting Jiang Yi Cheng as her role model in her heart, she achieves good grades in school. However after graduation, she did not expect that Jiang Yi Cheng’s company does not recruit female employees. Lu Li decides to disguise as a man and enter the company. However, she met difficulty both in dealing with Jiang Yi Cheng’s demands, as well as hiding her identity. Finally with her perseverance, she grabbed hold of an opportunity and managed to come to an agreement with Jiang Yi Cheng. The two would become a “contract couple” and stay together for one year. Slowly, Jiang YiCcheng finds himself falling for Lu Li.
9. Shuke and Peach Blossom (2021)
Shu Ke is a salesman who aspires to be a designer. After entering into a contract marriage with Tao Hua, a second-generation rich baifumei, Shu Ke finds himself facing all sorts of troubles. He has to deal with his steely mother-in-law, a childhood sweetheart who has come to find fault, a father-in-law who seems to be neither friend nor foe and Tao Hua’s good friend who is crushing on him. Being in too deep in their lies, the two start to develop real feelings for each other.
However, the time will come when their fake marriage is exposed. Tao Hua’s mother demands that Shu Ke give up on his dream of becoming a designer to join the family business instead. Shu Ke reluctantly agrees and experiences various ups and downs in the workplace as the chairman’s son-in-law. Meanwhile, Ta Hua puts her life on hold to focus all her energy towards Shu Ke. With their relationship reaching an impasse, can they ever have a real marriage?
In order to resolve a crisis, two prominent names in the real estate industry agree to get engaged for 99 days – one is the domineering female CEO and the other merely a puppet executive.
Gu Ling Se is the head of Dingzhuang Group. Ye Cheng Shu is the figurehead of Weilai Group. Out of commercial interests, the two young executives enter into a contract engagement. Quan has been pursuing Gu Ling Se yet mistakenly plays cupid when his actions lead to a kiss between Ye Cheng Shu and Gu Ling Se.
Soon enough, what was purely business has turned into a real romance. Just when everything seemed to be going well, Ye Cheng Shu’s good friend Jiang Han reveals his wild ambition. Can the “president-in-training” and his “hardcore” wife save the family business?
There you have it folks, how many of these dramas have you watched and which drama would you recommend to your friends? If you have another drama to recommend, you can recommend them to me through the comments.
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