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Synopsis

There are love stories that begin with a meeting. There are love stories that begin with a choice. And then there are the ones that begin with a drunken ceremony that neither participant remembers, a year of separate lives built on top of an invisible shared fact, and a reunion where two people look directly at each other without recognizing what they are already looking at. Falling in Love by a Mistaken Vow belongs entirely to that third category, and it executes its premise with a combination of playful energy and genuine emotional intelligence that makes it one of the more re-watchable romance dramas in NetShort's catalog.

Luca is a CEO whose life is structured around a single unusual reality: he is physically allergic to women. The condition is not metaphorical. Contact with women triggers an actual allergic reaction, which has shaped his entire adult existence into something orderly, isolated, and carefully managed. His world is controlled precisely because it has to be, and the control has served him well enough that he has stopped questioning whether there might be another way to live.

One night, drunk and far outside his carefully maintained routine, Luca ends up in a situation he will not remember clearly the next morning. He and Isla, a young woman carrying the weight of her mother's mounting medical bills and the kind of financial pressure that forces people into decisions they would not otherwise consider, accidentally get married. The ceremony is real. The paperwork exists. Neither of them has a clear recollection of how it happened or who the other person was.

Luca disappears overseas the next day. Isla is left with the fact of a marriage she cannot fully account for and a life that still needs to be managed regardless. She files the experience somewhere between confusion and practical necessity and keeps moving.

A year passes.

When Luca returns, fate manages to be both coincidental and geometrically precise about what it does next. He encounters Isla again, this time working as a cleaner, and does not recognize her. But something about being near her is different from being near every other woman he has ever encountered. She does not trigger his allergy. The condition that has defined and constrained his entire adult life simply does not activate in her presence, which is both medically inexplicable and, for a man who has built walls around himself out of physical necessity, genuinely destabilizing.

His response is characteristic of someone who processes unfamiliar emotions through transaction: he hires her. The arrangement is framed as a contract girlfriend situation, practical and bounded, with terms that keep feelings at a negotiable distance. Isla, still managing her mother's medical situation and not in a position to turn down stability, accepts. What neither of them understands yet is that the contract is not the beginning of something new between them. It is the second chapter of something that already legally began a year ago in a night that disappeared from both their memories.

The fake relationship does what fake relationships in stories like this reliably do, except that here the emotional stakes are layered with an additional complexity that the standard contract romance format does not usually carry. As Luca falls for Isla through the manufactured proximity of their arrangement, he is not falling for a stranger. He is, without knowing it, falling for his own wife a second time. The revelation, when it arrives, does not land as a twist that reframes a love story. It lands as the confirmation that the love story was never as new as either of them believed.

Produced in collaboration between NetShort and Loomlight Production House and holding a 7.7 rating on IMDb, the series is tagged under Flash Marriage and Mistaken Identity, two categories it fulfills completely while managing to add enough emotional specificity to the premise that the familiar structure feels freshly inhabited rather than simply repeated.