Stella's mother tells her she wants grandchildren and urges her to start dating.

Phillip casually tells Stella she needs to get sexual practice, leading her to consider hiring an escort.

Michael meets Stella at the Clements Hotel, where she proposes he become her exclusive intimacy tutor for several months.

Stella struggles with physical intimacy during their first encounter, and she and Michael spend the night cuddling and watching a movie instead.

Michael initially refuses to continue as Stella's tutor but returns and agrees to grant her three sessions.

Stella becomes overstimulated at a nightclub and flees outside, where Quan helps calm her down.

Stella tells Michael she needs relationship practice rather than sex lessons and proposes a paid fake-boyfriend arrangement.

Stella discovers Michael working at his family's dry cleaning shop and learns he designs all his own suits.

Michael accepts Stella's practice-boyfriend offer, and the first family dinner he arranges ends with Mẹ in tears.

Stella apologizes to Mẹ the next morning, and Michael picks her up that evening for a peaceful family dinner.

While waiting for Michael at his apartment, Stella discovers bills revealing he has been paying his mother's cancer treatment costs.

Phillip forces a kiss on Stella at work, and she rushes to Michael's shop distressed, telling him she only wants him.

At the charity dinner, Aliza arrives as Phillip's mother, Michael storms out, and outside he tells Stella their arrangement is over.

After their separation, Janie's internship interview helps Stella accept her autism, while Michael decides to start a fashion business with Quan.

Michael shows up outside Stella's office and confesses his love, and the two reconcile and discuss their future.

Stella Lane, an autistic econometrician, hires escort Michael Phan as an intimacy tutor after a coworker's blunt advice, and their arrangement quickly becomes something neither of them expected. Their sessions evolve from awkward physical lessons into a paid fake-boyfriend arrangement after Stella realizes she needs to practice relationships, not just sex. As they grow closer, Stella discovers that Michael has been escorting to secretly pay his mother's cancer treatment bills, deepening her feelings for him. Their romance reaches a breaking point at a charity dinner when Michael, overwhelmed by feelings of inferiority, ends their arrangement and reveals he has always known about Stella's autism. A painful separation forces both of them to confront who they truly are — Stella accepts her autism and Michael commits to his passion for fashion design. Michael ultimately confesses his love outside Stella's office and the two reconcile as equals, ready to build a genuine future together.

The headline events of Stella and Michael's unconventional romance.

Stella turns down a promotion at work because she prefers data analysis over managing other people.

Michael opens his STI results and bills before heading to the Clements Hotel for his Friday escort appointment.

Stella's mother calls during Michael's departure from the hotel and assumes he is Stella's new boyfriend.

Michael practices kendo with his cousin Quan, who teases him about having a secret girlfriend.

Stella presents Michael with typed lesson plans, sparking an argument about the importance of foreplay and mutual pleasure.

During their second session, Michael begins foreplay but Stella stops him before climaxing and confesses she has never orgasmed with a partner.

Stella and Michael share a flirtatious gelato date and stop a public kiss only when other customers tease them.

Mẹ discovers Stella at the dry cleaning shop and immediately invites her to stay for a family dinner.

After the second successful family dinner, Stella and Michael become fully intimate and she experiences her first orgasm with a partner.

Michael takes Stella shopping for casual clothes and introduces her to softer fabrics that suit her sensory needs.

Stella and Michael play a spontaneous piano duet together while she waits for him at her house.

At a family dinner, Janie asks Stella for resume help after learning Stella works in economics.

Michael designs and presents Stella with a custom birthday dress as a gift for all the years he didn't know her.

While preparing for the charity dinner, Stella reveals to Michael that she already knows his real last name is Larsen.

Michael's fashion line launches and Stella offers to buy him a car using her promotion bonus, which he accepts.

Behind the main plot, Stella and Michael's relationship deepens through smaller scenes that expose their personalities, vulnerabilities, and growing affection. Michael's financial pressures and Stella's professional sacrifices are established early, grounding the story in the real obstacles each character faces. Their arranged sessions generate unexpected warmth — from a flirtatious gelato date to a spontaneous piano duet — showing that their connection goes far beyond the terms of their deal. Michael's creative passion shines through the custom birthday dress he makes for Stella, while Stella's generosity emerges through the career help she quietly offers his sister Janie. As the story approaches its conclusion, both characters have grown significantly from their first hesitant meeting, and the epilogue confirms that their shared future is built on a genuine understanding of how the other person expresses love.

The quieter moments that reveal who Stella and Michael truly are.

Stella selects Michael from an escort website because he looks kind and contacts the agency to arrange a meeting.

Outside the nightclub, Quan recognizes Stella's reaction as overstimulation and asks directly if she is autistic; she confirms.

During the first family dinner, Mẹ breaks down and reveals that Michael's father abandoned the family for another woman.

After Stella causes Mẹ's tears, Mẹ tells Michael that if he loves Stella, the family will learn to love her too.

Michael asks Quan directly whether Stella is autistic, and Quan confirms, helping Michael understand the disastrous first dinner.

Michael nervously invites Stella into his apartment for the first time, breaking his long-standing rule about keeping clients out of his personal space.

After spending every day together, Michael privately acknowledges that he has fallen in love with Stella.

After Phillip's unwanted kiss, Stella buys Michael a pack of boxer shorts and resolves to confess her autism if he loves her.

Outside the charity dinner, Michael tells Stella his father was a con artist and reveals he has known about her autism.

Stella returns to the charity dinner and angrily explains Michael's sacrifices to her family and Phillip before storming out.

Michael packs his belongings from Stella's house, leaves his uncashed check behind, and takes the boxer shorts she bought him.

In the wake of his breakup with Stella, Michael tears up all his clothing design sketches in frustration.

At Mẹ's doctor's appointment, Michael learns that a newly established foundation is covering all of her cancer treatment costs.

When Phillip continues his advances on Stella after their dinner date, Michael crosses the street and punches him.

Stella reveals she secretly funded the foundation that paid Mẹ's medical bills, and Michael tells her he plans to propose in three months.

The Kiss Quotient is shaped by a series of pivotal revelations and internal turning points that slowly pull Stella and Michael together despite the secrets they keep. Stella's deliberate choice to hire Michael, and Quan's quiet recognition of her autism at the nightclub, set crucial dynamics in motion that neither protagonist fully understands at the time. The first family dinner exposes painful truths about Michael's father, and Quan's later confirmation of Stella's diagnosis reshapes how Michael sees and supports her. Their relationship reaches its crisis at the charity dinner when both characters' secrets erupt in a moment of tension rather than trust, sending each of them into a destructive period of self-erasure. A hidden act of love — Stella secretly funding the foundation that covers Mẹ's medical bills — is quietly discovered while Michael struggles to rebuild himself. When Michael finally intervenes to protect Stella from Phillip's advances, the truth of her feelings is exposed, and both of them find the courage to be honest about who they are and what they want.

The key decisions, discoveries, and emotional shifts that drive the story forward.