When Maggie Tang arrives as a transfer-student at UC Berkeley in 2005, she has no idea how her life is about to change. She meets Adam, Charles, and Hari, the friends with whom she’ll create Circle, the world’s first major social media platform. But navigating her ambitions alongside love and friendship isn’t so simple, and when they inevitably collide, Maggie exits Circle in dramatic fashion. A decade later, Maggie is struggling when she receives an invitation to celebrate Circle’s 10th anniversary on a private island in Norway, with the three people she has tried hardest to forget. But the journalist writing a retrospective on Circle is eager for a scoop, which means they can’t tiptoe around the past forever. And when a new truth is revealed about their fallout all those years ago, Maggie will have to decide whether to run again or fight for a second chance with the people she once loved most.

Bride-to-be Lulu is set to marry Shanghai’s most eligible bachelor, but her two best friends know the truth: she’s only marrying him to fix her family’s financial issues. The wedding will be the social event of the season, but the three women will be focused on one thing: the red envelopes filled with cash gifts, stored in an elaborate safe at the center of the ballroom. It's more than enough money to get Lulu out of the marriage and transform all their lives. With the help of a mysterious luxury goods counterfeiter and a snarky getaway driver, the women set in motion a brilliant scheme to lift all the red envelopes on the big day. But as their plot grows increasingly complicated and relationships are caught in the crossfire, they're forced to decide what they're willing to give up to get their way.