There are love affairsBefore the 90 DaysIt all started with roses. But Emma began with a vow that sounded like a curse: “I’m flying to Morocco and I won’t leave until I have a ring on my finger!” That one sentence was enough for the audience to understand: this girl wasn’t going on vacation, she was going to… finalize the marriage agreement. And when someone enters a relationship with an ultimatum, just one wrong breath from the other person and everything collapses like a house built on sand.

Emma (27, living in LA) appeared with her twin sister Izzy, both obsessed with Botox-style cosmetic enhancements, but their personalities were like two opposing switches: one impulsive, the other cautious. Izzy bluntly stated: Emma falls in love incredibly quickly, so quickly that “a date or a shot of tequila” is enough to make her dream of marriage. And true to reality TV, dreaming of marriage isn’t the problem…the problem is that Emma dreams of marrying someone she doesn’t even know well, and yet she has expectations like a deposit: a proposal on this birthday, an engagement in Morocco.

Ziad is Emma’s Moroccan boyfriend, whom she met through a dating app. After talking for a few months, they were already planning their future. Emma was convinced he was “sweet” and “the one for her,” even mentioning that he had bought her a ring. But Izzy saw red flags flying everywhere: the connection was “superficial,” not deep enough, and most importantly… Emma was repeating the exact same mistakes she had made just a year earlier.

This was the real blow: Emma had once flown to Morocco to meet another man, gotten engaged, only to be heartbroken when she discovered he had “almost 20 girlfriends” texting simultaneously. Emma was devastated, lost faith, and it took her a long time to recover… and then, just a year later, she was on a plane again for a new version of a “Morocco fiancé” — but Ziad knew nothing about the past.

And Emma didn’t just hide the fact that she was “once engaged.” She also admitted to a period of overlap: when Emma and her former fiancé were having problems, she started talking to Ziad; then she went back to try and mend things, only to return to Ziad when everything fell apart. This means the foundation of their current relationship already had a “half-truth, half-hidden” feel to it, the kind where one detail coming out could cause a domino effect.

Before even reaching Morocco, Emma puts herself in a vulnerable position: she loses her job right before her flight, while she’s the one paying for accommodation because Ziad works as a nurse and “doesn’t have much money.” Emma tries to reassure herself: Ziad is different, Ziad will understand, Ziad won’t let her bear the burden alone. But the audience watches…90 DayThen you know: when someone is unemployed and sets the goal of “getting a ring,” that’s not normal love—it’s a desperate race to prove they haven’t been abandoned.

Then the bombshell exploded the moment they met. Midway through the flight, Emma received a text message that worried her (she didn’t reveal the content), and at the Moroccan airport, she had to carry her own luggage because Ziad didn’t want to go into the crowded area, saying they should meet outside. And when the two finally met, their “open-minded” relationship crumbled like a falling stage curtain: Ziad had previously said they could show affection in public, but now he reversed his stance: no kissing, at most a kiss on the cheek. When Emma refused because she “feared smudging her makeup,” Ziad immediately became coldly offended: “I’m a man, I have my word,” and declared that this would be his “last kiss.”

Within minutes in real life, they were caught in a whirlwind: Emma ran away in shock at being betrayed, Ziad was furious as if he were the one who had been insulted. And this is what makes the story so insidious: Emma had every right to feel cheated, since the promise was broken the moment the cameras started rolling; but Ziad was also standing on a foundation he knew nothing about — Emma was hiding another Moroccan engagement, and it was an “overlap.” Each accused the other of deception, while both carried the most dangerous thing of all: a secret enough to kill trust at first sight.

And so the “flight to find the ring” turned into an uncontrollable gamble: Emma pressed her future with expectations, Ziad pressed the present with last-minute rules, and the truth about her “former fiancé” hung like a knife over their heads—would Emma’s haunting ring be a happy ending, or merely a seal on a relationship already rotten from the inside?

If their relationship has already fractured after just a few seconds of meeting, how much longer can they endure before Emma’s secret and Ziad’s betrayal explode?