Meddy's family secretly creates an online dating profile for her and arranges a date with a man they believe is a wealthy hotelier.

The date makes unwanted advances while driving Meddy home; she Tases him in self-defense and the car crashes into a tree.

Believing the man is dead, Meddy loads the body into her car trunk and drives home to her family in a panic.

The Chan family decides to hide the body in a cooler at Big Aunt's bakery and deal with it after the next day's wedding.

Big Aunt's bakery staff accidentally ships the body cooler to the wedding venue along with the other wedding supplies.

At the wedding venue, the Chans discover the real hotel owner is Nathan Chan, Meddy's secret ex-boyfriend from college.

The body is revealed to be Ma's lily supplier Ah Guan rather than the hotelier Jake; Ah Guan had manipulated Ma into arranging the date.

The roughly two-million-dollar tea ceremony gifts go missing, and maid of honor Maureen frames Meddy for their theft.

Hotel security searches Meddy's room but finds nothing; Meddy redirects suspicion toward Maureen's suite instead.

The stolen gifts are found hidden in Maureen's suite and she is expelled from the wedding in disgrace.

Ah Guan's disguised corpse tumbles from the arms of the groomsmen at the altar, exposing the dead body to all the wedding guests.

Sheriff McConnell, driven by racial bias and a grudge against the hotel, baselessly arrests Nathan for Ah Guan's murder.

Meddy impersonates Nathan's attorney and confronts Sheriff McConnell, challenging the charges, the evidence, and the lack of crime scene preservation.

Maureen returns with a gun and a recording of the Chans' incriminating conversation, holding the family hostage and demanding Meddy steal the gifts again.

Nathan is freed after Maureen and Jacqueline help feed the sheriff a cover story; Nathan later proposes to Meddy at the family dim sum.

When Meddy Chan accidentally kills a bad date in self-defense, she and her aunts must hide the body while working a high-profile Chinese Indonesian wedding. The body ends up at the island venue by mistake, where Meddy discovers the real hotelier is her secret ex-boyfriend, Nathan Chan. As the Chans scramble to conceal the corpse, a side plot involving stolen tea ceremony gifts exposes the maid of honor and piles on the pressure. The corpse then makes a disastrous public appearance at the altar, and a biased sheriff arrests Nathan for murder. Meddy fights back by impersonating Nathan's attorney, while a tense hostage standoff forces the story's final confrontation. Ultimately, all secrets come out, Nathan is freed, and Meddy begins a new chapter in her life.

The headline events of the Chan family's corpse cover-up caper.

Meddy chooses a local California college over Columbia University in order to stay close to her mother and aunts.

Meddy and Nathan Chan meet at a college party and share their first kiss.

Meddy visits Nathan's parents in England and acutely feels the cultural and class divide between their two families.

Nathan reveals a dream job offer in New York and asks Meddy to come with him; she is unable to commit.

Meddy breaks up with Nathan at college graduation and returns home without ever telling her family he existed.

Meddy and Fourth Aunt read the dating app messages and discover Ma had accidentally sent the date explicit texts.

The Chan family wraps Ah Guan's body in blankets and drives it to Big Aunt's bakery in the middle of the night.

To distract Nathan from the blankets slipping out of the body cooler, Meddy kisses him on the hotel grounds.

Sheriff McConnell arrives at the wedding venue and attempts to shut the event down using a bogus legal technicality.

Meddy discovers the groom's entire party is incapacitated from partying the night before and completely unable to perform their duties.

After photographing the tea ceremony, Meddy helps Maureen carry the valuable gift collection to the bridal suite.

Meddy uses Ah Guan's dead fingerprint to unlock his phone and reads Maureen's texts revealing a plot to steal the tea ceremony gifts.

The aunts dress Ah Guan in a groomsman outfit, hide him in the groom's suite, and supply the real groomsmen with alcohol and marijuana.

Meddy confronts her aunts after the altar disaster and learns how the drugged groomsmen accidentally carried Ah Guan's body to the ceremony.

Maureen and Jacqueline help the Chans construct a cover story for the sheriff, who accepts the deal in exchange for taking credit.

Meddy's decision to stay near her family instead of pursuing her own dreams sets the emotional stage for everything that follows. Her secret college romance with Nathan and their painful breakup create the personal stakes that complicate the wedding chaos from the moment he reappears. When the corpse crisis begins, the Chans' frantic nighttime transport of the body and their repeated failures to remove it from the island show just how far their loyalty to Meddy stretches. Key discoveries, including the contents of Ah Guan's phone and the scale of Maureen's theft plot, keep layering new pressure onto the cover-up. The groomsmen's incapacitation and the aunts' reckless solution to hide the body among them set the catastrophe at the altar in motion. In the end, a carefully constructed cover story and a bargain with the sheriff bring the whole ordeal to a close.

The behind-the-scenes chaos and key discoveries that shaped every twist.

The aunts announce plans for a family wedding business and recruit Meddy as photographer, derailing her plan to finally tell them about Nathan.

The Chans open the cooler at the venue and discover Ah Guan was still alive when stored, making them directly responsible for his death.

Fourth Aunt witnesses Meddy kissing Nathan on the hotel grounds and immediately plans to use the secret against Ma in their sibling rivalry.

Nathan visits Meddy's hotel room and spots Ah Guan's feet protruding from the bed, mistakenly assuming she has a new boyfriend.

Meddy confesses her secret college relationship with Nathan to Ma, and Ma responds with surprising empathy rather than hurt or anger.

Meddy and Second Aunt discover a duffel bag hidden in the bridal suite stuffed with all the tea ceremony gifts Maureen planned to steal.

Maureen calls Ah Guan's phone to announce she is framing Meddy for the theft, unknowingly letting Meddy overhear the entire plan.

Meddy sneaks the stolen gifts into Maureen's closet but is trapped under the bed when Maureen returns to the room unexpectedly.

Meddy spots Ah Guan's disguised corpse among the groomsmen arriving at the ceremony and realizes what her aunts have done.

Tom Cruise Sutopo refuses to remove the visibly drunk and high groomsmen from the altar, prioritizing his ego over the ceremony.

Meddy drops her camera and jumps into the pool to rescue Jacqueline, who fell in during the chaos at the altar.

Furious after the altar disaster, Meddy finally explodes at her aunts and reveals her long-suppressed desire to leave the family business.

In private, Meddy and Nathan confess their mutual feelings; Nathan reveals he already figured out the corpse situation and vows to take the blame.

Meddy realizes Maureen's true motive for the theft was love for Jacqueline and not greed, and devises a plan to bring them together.

Meddy leaves the family business to open her own photography studio; Maureen and Jacqueline later marry; Nathan proposes to Meddy at dim sum.

Each major revelation in the novel forces Meddy to confront a long-buried secret or make a decisive choice she has been avoiding. The discovery that Ah Guan was still alive when stored in the cooler raises the moral stakes of the entire cover-up, while Nathan's reappearance forces Meddy's buried feelings back to the surface. Ma's unexpected empathy when Meddy finally confesses about Nathan becomes the emotional turning point that begins to heal the divide between them. As the crisis escalates at the altar, Meddy is pushed from a passive observer into an active decision-maker, finally voicing her desire to leave the family business in a fierce outburst. Realizing the true depth of Maureen's love for Jacqueline gives Meddy the insight she needs to engineer the standoff's resolution. By the novel's end, Meddy has found the courage to live independently while remaining genuinely close to her family.

The emotional breakthroughs and pivotal discoveries that drive Meddy's transformation.