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The Marriage Clause
2026TV-1434 episodesDrama
Watch nowA tutor enters a fake marriage with a CEO, only to discover their contract may become real.
THE MARRIAGE CLAUSE is a sizzling vertical drama about a fake marriage that becomes dangerously real. When 24-year-old tutor Ellie Anderson learns her father has embezzled money from one of the city's most powerful companies, she confronts its CEO, Aiden Collins, hoping to save him from prison. Aiden, 28, is fighting to keep control of his family's company. His late father's will requires him to be married for 90 days before he can assume full leadership, and with ruthless board members closing in, he needs a solution fast. Ellie needs mercy. Aiden needs a wife. They sign a contract: no romance, no feelings, no complications. But stolen moments, growing attraction, and mounting danger make the arrangement impossible to keep professional.As Aiden's obsessive assistant and a corrupt board member conspire against them, Ellie and Aiden are drawn into a web of betrayal, power struggles, and unexpected love. The question is no longer whether the contract will end, but whether their hearts will survive it.
Episodes
- S1 E1The Marriage ClauseAt a quiet, business-filled wedding, Ellie and Aiden share their first kiss as husband and wife, while Aiden's jealous assistant Jessica vows to expose their marriage as a fraud.
- S1 E2The Marriage ClauseTwo weeks earlier, Ellie learns her father Tony has been arrested for embezzling from Collins Legacy Group, and his desperate plea sends her on a collision course with its CEO.
- S1 E3The Marriage ClauseWith no other options to save her father, Ellie tracks down Collins Legacy Group's headquarters, talks her way inside by posing as a reporter and clashes with Aiden's suspicious assistant Jessica.
- S1 E4The Marriage ClauseTrapped by his late father's will, which demands he be married to gain control of the company, Aiden meets the desperate woman begging for her father's freedom. and sees an opportunity.
- S1 E5The Marriage ClauseJessica eavesdrops as Aiden offers Ellie an outrageous deal, marry him to satisfy the company's marriage clause and he'll drop the charges against her father, leaving her stunned and cornered.
- S1 E6The Marriage ClauseEllie signs the marriage contract to free her father, but as Tony moves into her apartment and a mysterious car watches her building
- S1 E7The Marriage ClauseAs Aiden battles his board over the legitimacy of his sudden marriage, Tony receives a threatening call from the loan sharks he still owes, and Jessica begins plotting with board member Hawthorne.
- S1 E8The Marriage ClauseWhile venting to her best friend Dayna, Ellie gets a call from Aiden warning her that loan sharks may be closing in and that she needs to move into his penthouse immediately.
- S1 E9The Marriage ClauseEllie arrives at Aiden's penthouse for the first time, bristling at being called 'wifey' and insisting this was never part of the deal, but Aiden makes clear she's not going anywhere.
- S1 E10The Marriage ClauseSettling into separate bedrooms under one roof, Ellie and Aiden establish careful boundaries, but a late-night check-in and a charged morning encounter in his shirt hint those boundaries won't hold.
- S1 E11The Marriage ClauseJessica barges into the penthouse with bags of clothes Aiden picked out for Ellie, then tears into her, calling her a desperate, dirty fraud and warning that her secret marriage won't last long before everyone finds out the truth.
- S1 E12The Marriage ClauseEllie discovers a hidden camera feed of the penthouse, realizes Aiden has been watching her, and is caught off guard when he walks in on her in the bathroom.
- S1 E13The Marriage ClauseAn awkward bathroom run-in gives way to a tender kitchen moment, where Aiden reassures a worried Ellie that their secret is safe.
- S1 E14The Marriage ClauseEllie is left rattled after a cruel tutoring session with a spoiled student, Madison, accusing her of being the penthouse’s maid and faking her marriage.
- S1 E15The Marriage ClauseA kitchen accident sends Ellie to the floor bleeding and Aiden drops everything to help her.
- S1 E16The Marriage ClauseWhile tending to Ellie's injured hand, Aiden opens up about a childhood scar, and the two share a quietly intimate moment, just as Jessica plots against them with a hired thug.
- S1 E17The Marriage ClauseWhen threatening texts target Ellie directly, Aiden intercepts them and Ellie overhears Aiden quietly handling her loan shark problem behind the scenes.
- S1 E18The Marriage ClauseA vulnerable conversation in the pool about Ellie's dream of opening a learning center ends in an intimate moment neither of them can pretend was part of the deal.
- S1 E19The Marriage ClauseEllie makes her public debut as Aiden's wife at a company soiree, turning heads, while Jessica, seething with jealousy, sets a trap involving a flirtatious waiter.
- S1 E20The Marriage ClauseAt the soiree, Aiden is pulled away by Jessica, leaving Ellie alone with a charming waiter who flirts with her over champagne, and when Jessica spots them laughing together, she seizes the moment to needle Aiden, sending him storming back over, visibly bothered.
- S1 E21The Marriage ClauseAiden's jealous outburst at the soiree exposes feelings he can no longer hide, and he asks Ellie to dance, sweeping aside any pretense that their marriage is purely business.
- S1 E22The Marriage ClauseOn the drive home and at their bedroom doors, Aiden and Ellie share a charged, almost-confession moment that leaves them both grinning long after they say goodnight.
- S1 E23The Marriage ClauseMadison and her overbearing mother barge into Aiden’s penthouse and humiliate Ellie but are interrupted by Aiden
- S1 E24The Marriage ClauseAiden fiercely defends Ellie against Madison's mother, and once they're alone, the tension grows but they are interrupted by a call.
- S1 E25The Marriage ClauseWhen Aiden gets a call revealing the board knows the marriage is fake, his sudden coldness leaves Ellie convinced she was never more than a deal, and a hurt Ellie heads out to meet Dayna.
- S1 E26The Marriage ClauseWhile Jessica plots her next move from the office, Ellie is suddenly attacked and dragged off the street, her phone going dead mid-call.
- S1 E27The Marriage ClauseDayna's frantic call alerts Aiden that Ellie has gone missing and as Aiden races to locate Ellie, Jessica privately gloats from her office, confident her plan against Ellie is finally working.
- S1 E28The Marriage ClauseAiden confronts Tony for answers about the kidnapping, and just as fear peaks for both of them, word comes that Ellie has been found.
- S1 E29The Marriage ClauseReunited with a shaken but safe Ellie, Aiden learns from Detective Langston that two people from his own company, including board member Hawthorne, orchestrated her kidnapping.
- S1 E30The Marriage ClauseBack home and safe, Ellie falls asleep in Aiden's arms, and he finally whispers the words he's been holding back, that he loves her.
- S1 E31The Marriage ClauseThe next morning, Aiden asks Ellie to be his wife for real, and she says yes, admitting she loved him first.
- S1 E32The Marriage ClauseAiden confronts Jessica with proof of her role in the kidnapping, and she's arrested just as Hawthorne attempts one final move against him.
- S1 E33The Marriage ClauseAiden storms the boardroom with police, exposing and arresting Hawthorne for orchestrating Ellie's kidnapping, then surprises her, now in her wedding dress, with a gift after announcing the board's dissolution.
- S1 E34The Marriage ClauseAiden gives Ellie the keys to a building her father helped secure for her dream Learning Center, and the two toast to her future before sharing a passionate moment as real husband and wife.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Omar Derby
- Cast
- Qera South
- Cast
- Jeff Crosserly
Studio: The Lab Studios