Lara Jean writes some pretty damning love letters to five boys that had captured her heart over the years. Her sister sends them out. All hell breaks loose.
One of the boys who received a letter was the ex boyfriend of her older sister, so in order to avoid having to deal with the ramifications of her letter, she creates a pact with another one of the guys on her list. They basically agree to a mutually manipulative relationship so she can avoid her problems and he can make his ex girlfriend jealous. They even have an extensive list of rules for their faux relationship. Yay fake dating!
Both Lara Jean and Peter, her partner in this manipulation mission, lie to many people around them, including family, in order to pass off their interactions as a romantic relationship. Inevitably, they end up bonding throughout this whole experience, as they are the only two who really know what's going on.
Real feelings develop. Both parties get hurt, before realizing that maybe it wasn't a fake relationship at all.
The manipulation in this film varies a bit from other cases we've studies. Instead of the characters manipulating each other, or being manipulated by outside sources, they are manipulating their environment, and the people in it. Together, the fake couple controls the lies, they control what happens within this fake relationship(via contract) and they(mostly) control how real everything is.
Maybe that makes it better? To have love interests working together to manipulate the world around them? Probably not, but it certainly made for an interesting plot in the Netflix romantic comedy.
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