Summer Branches in the North

Male lead: Secretly in love, outwardly gentle and obedient, but privately plotting to marry the female lead

Female lead: Fiercely protective, with multiple identities and a strong sense of justice

Full story: A reunion after years apart, secret love, and unwavering choices

After the Night Pavilion case, Xia Zhi heads to Yongdu and joins forces with various factions to bring down a powerful minister. On the way there, she encounters a young man she rescued many years ago: the male lead, Meng Hui.

One time, after getting drunk, Xia Zhi thought she had merely dreamed it all. But the next day, Meng Hui said with a wounded look, “Sister, you don't have to take what happened last night to heart. I was willing.”

Xia Zhi was thunderstruck. She felt guilty for having ruined a fine young man from Beiyong, completely forgetting that the night before, she had been pulled into someone's arms and kissed passionately.

Meng Hui thought Xia Zhi's feelings for him were nothing more than the fondness she'd shown him as a boy, and that the two of them had shared nothing but a moment of tenderness while drunk. He had no idea that Xia Zhi wasn't a one-drink lightweight.

Qin Xuan: I don't care. You are all getting married! I want to see you fall in love!