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Hidden Identity · 78 episodes · YourChannel

Contract Wife, Unexpected Love

She flees an arranged wedding, picks up a cold stranger at a bar — and later finds out he is the husband she just fled.

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The story

The short version. Hidden Identity, 78 episodes on YourChannel. Summer Hayes, a 24-year-old mining heiress, is forced by her father into an arranged marriage with Preston Locke, the older heir of the powerful Locke family, a man she has never met. Both flee the wedding.

The premise is a double-escape setup. Summer is forced into an arranged marriage with Preston Locke, a man she has never met, by her own father. Both flee the wedding — Summer heartbroken, into a bar where she hires a cold stranger for the night. The opening arc's central turn is that the stranger is Preston. The marriage the two of them just ran away from is, in fact, a legal marriage between them.

The series runs 78 episodes in English, with the opening stretch of the failed wedding, the bar encounter and the workplace reveal playable on the official YourChannel player. The opening episodes stay close to the recognition and the first moves: the wedding flight, the bar, the new boss, the first scheme Preston quietly clears. The later episodes carry the wider arc of Summer becoming a powerful figure and the eventual wedding the synopsis only hints at, which this page deliberately leaves to the show.

The second engine is the workplace reveal. At Zenith Corporation, Summer's strict new boss turns out to be the same man: the hidden legal husband and the one-night companion. The official synopsis adds the layer that the pestering ex-boyfriend also converges on the same figure. The opening stretch uses that triple identity as the comedy-and-romance engine: Preston plays along as her assistant while secretly clearing the schemes aimed at Summer from her father, her ex, her stepmother and a fake white moonlight.

Series facts checked against the YourChannel listing. Notes cover the opening episodes only; nothing here reveals the ending.

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Who carries it

Summer Hayes, Preston Locke and The Hayes Household carry the opening arc.

Summer Hayes — The 24-year-old mining heiress who flees her wedding
Summer Hayes
The 24-year-old mining heiress who flees her wedding

A 24-year-old mining heiress forced by her father into an arranged marriage with Preston Locke. She flees the wedding, hires a cold stranger at a bar for a night, and later discovers the stranger is her husband and her new boss at Zenith Corporation.

Preston Locke — The older Locke heir who is the stranger, the husband and the boss
Preston Locke
The older Locke heir who is the stranger, the husband and the boss

The older heir of the powerful Locke family, arranged to Summer Hayes without meeting her. He also flees the wedding, becomes the cold stranger she hires at a bar, and later surfaces as her strict new boss at Zenith Corporation. The opening arc has him playing along as her assistant while quietly clearing the schemes aimed at her.

The Hayes Household — The family pressure behind the arranged marriage
The Hayes Household
The family pressure behind the arranged marriage

Summer's own father, her stepmother and the wider Hayes household are the forces that pushed the arranged marriage in the first place. The official synopsis frames them as sources of schemes Preston is quietly clearing on Summer's behalf.

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Scenes worth the episode

Four editorial picks from the opening stretch of the failed wedding, the bar encounter and the workplace reveal. No ending spoilers.

Episodes 1–10

The Arranged Marriage

Summer Hayes is forced by her father into an arranged marriage with Preston Locke, the older heir of the Locke family, a man she has never met. The opening minutes establish the pressure and the stranger at the other end of the aisle.

Episodes 1–10

Both Flee the Wedding

The wedding is a failure on both sides. Summer leaves heartbroken; Preston leaves for reasons of his own. The opening arc turns that shared flight into the setup for the bar scene.

Episodes 1–10

The Stranger at the Bar

Heartbroken, Summer hires a cold stranger at a bar for a one-night companion. The central reveal of the opening arc is that the stranger is Preston — the husband she just fled.

Episodes 1–10

The New Boss at Zenith

At Zenith Corporation, Summer's strict new boss is the same man. The opening stretch uses that triple identity — husband, stranger, boss — as the engine for the office romance and the first schemes Preston quietly clears.

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Frames from episode one

Captured from the opening episodes — not promotional art.

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Our notes

Written from the opening arc. These are editorial impressions, not audience scores.

WebShorts notes · on the premise

The series works because the double escape is mutual: both leads run from the wedding, not just one. That symmetry turns the bar scene from a one-night stand into a recognition scene neither of them saw coming.

WebShorts notes · on the opening arc

The workplace reveal is the load-bearing joke. The strict new boss, the hidden legal husband and the one-night stranger being the same man is what carries the office stretch before the family schemes take over.

Best for viewers who like hidden-identity billionaire romance, office comedy built on a triple identity, and a lead couple who both ran from the same wedding. The opening arc leans on the failed wedding, the bar encounter and the new-boss reveal, so it lands well if you like a romance built on mistaken identity that is not actually a mistake. The 78-episode length means the opening stretch is allowed to take its time before the wider family takeover arrives.

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Before you press play

How long is Contract Wife, Unexpected Love altogether?
The official listing shows 78 episodes.
What is Contract Wife, Unexpected Love really about?
Mining heiress Summer Hayes is forced by her father into an arranged marriage with Preston Locke. Both flee the wedding; Summer hires a cold stranger at a bar, and later discovers he is Preston — her husband and her new boss at Zenith Corporation.
Who should I keep an eye on in Contract Wife, Unexpected Love?
A 24-year-old mining heiress from the Hayes family, forced into the arranged marriage by her own father. She is the lead of the series.
Which characters carry Contract Wife, Unexpected Love?
The older heir of the powerful Locke family. The opening arc reveals him as the stranger Summer hires at a bar, the husband she fled, and her strict new boss at Zenith Corporation — all at once.
Where does Contract Wife, Unexpected Love stream?
On YourChannel, through its official player — the buttons on this page open that player directly.
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