Wait, My Parents Are Loaded?

John Foster has been told his whole life that the family has no money. His parents have kept that going for the twenty-five years he has been alive, on the idea that being rich would spoil him, and he has eaten out of a Ming bowl in a plain house without ever asking what it was. He goes out to work and never seems embarrassed about being poor, and that is the thing Cora Bradley notices. She runs a technology company, her family is pushing her into a marriage she wants out of, and she offers him money to stand in as her fiance while the two families are introduced. He takes the offer because he thinks his mother is sick and the money would go to her. Once the engagement is public, people who wanted Cora or wanted her company start setting things up to catch him out. He gets through most of it on his own quickness, and his parents clear away the rest from behind him without letting him see it.