霸道总裁--穷木匠

Project Overview

To save her late father's furniture factory, Lin Wanqing agrees to a fake marriage with a carpenter earning 6,000 yuan a month — until one day she sees that sawdust-covered man on the big screen of a global furniture summit. [Synopsis] Houjie, Dongguan. The last lights in the last row of furniture factories are still on. Lin Wanqing is holding on to "Wanqing Home," the factory her father left behind: ninety days of cash left, overseas orders pulled by upstream suppliers, a bank recall notice already sitting on the desk where her father died. The counterparty's only condition: be married. The joint venture's old rule — family businesses sign long-term contracts only with those who have a household of their own. Out of options, she meets Gu Chenzhou — a carpenter who repairs old furniture in the factory, earning 6,000 a month, hands permanently calloused and dusted with sawdust. He says yes almost too fast: the marriage can be fake, on one condition — let him into the factory as a partner. Everyone laughs at her. But she begins to notice the "poor carpenter" is not what he seems. He can name the origin and age of any piece of timber at a glance, judge moisture content by hand, and overturn in three minutes a plan an overseas design team spent a month on. At a trade show about to be lost, he dismantles a pet sofa built for export and proposes "shared furniture for people and pets" — one sofa that a person can sit on, a cat can sleep in, and a dog cannot chew through, and that can be mass-produced. The overseas client signs on the spot. "Wanqing Home" survives. But why does a furniture repairman understand global supply chains? Why does he always take a call at midnight from a number with no name? The truth tears open in an accident. Gu Chenzhou is the heir of Chenzhou Group, a global furniture conglomerate, missing for three years. Three years ago he was investigating a grey supply chain running from Dongguan through Southeast Asia — substandard board flowing through layers of contract manufacturing into countless small and mid-sized factories, pushing businesses like "Wanqing Home" to the brink. His father was investigating the same thing. Two fathers signed the same whistleblower report — then one died, and one disappeared. He hid in the factory under a new name, not to escape, but to wait for the one person who could testify for him. And she is that man's daughter. On the rainy night the secret comes out, neither of them is acting for the first time. She asks: in these three years of marriage, which sentence was true? He answers: everything except "6,000 a month." They decide not to expose it and not to run — but to dismantle the whole scheme from the inside: replacing grey contract manufacturing with real orders, forcing upstream reform with the overseas standard of "shared furniture for people and pets." Tracing it up layer by layer, they find the "client," the "investor," the "old friend" — all sitting at the same table. When the scheme is exposed, "Wanqing Home" goes from a factory ninety days from collapse to a dark horse in the overseas market, and two fathers' unspoken names are finally written into a public investigation report. Someone asks Lin Wanqing whether they ended up falling in love for real. She shakes her head, smiling: "We were never acting — we were just doing a partnership, in the name of a marriage." And he simply keeps carpentry. The old chair he repaired at the very beginning sits at the center of the company showroom. Carved into the grain are two words: "Home." [Characters] Lin Wanqing | 28, second-generation owner of a Dongguan furniture factory, taking over after her father's sudden death. Rational, strong-willed, tough outside and soft inside. Gu Chenzhou | 30, outwardly a carpenter earning 6,000 a month, in truth the missing heir of Chenzhou Group. Silent, intensely focused, hands quicker than words.