Spoiled Jasmine

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In the capital, rumors say that Third Master Yu is cold-hearted and keeps his distance from women, yet remains unmarried past the age of thirty.

Little do they know that all his tenderness has gone toward nurturing the little jasmine flower at home.

After an accident, Yu Wenye meets Tang Zhan's glistening gaze and realizes that the feelings he had buried in his heart have changed as she has grown up.

The wind is fickle.

He flees in disarray.

*

Later,

Yu Wenye watches Tang Zhan crawl into his arms to complete a dare.

The innocent little jasmine has grown into a graceful young woman, dressed in a tight black qipao with a halter neckline. Every gesture of hers is alluring, and every word a tease.

He holds her by her slender waist, his expression unreadable as he makes himself endure her playing an entire piece in his arms.

As she is about to leave, he tilts his wrist, spilling the wine in his glass across the fabric over her chest.

He hears her snap, "Third Master!"

*

A thin layer of snow blankets the Jiangnan winter.

In front of everyone, Yu Wenye storms into the Tang family ancestral hall, scoops up Tang Zhan, who has been punished to kneel, and carries her away.

By the window on a winter's night, Tang Zhan sniffs with her nose red from the cold, her pale feet resting against his chest.

"Yu Wenye, robbing the cradle will make you the laughingstock of the whole capital."

His rough fingertips stroke her ankle as he kisses her side and murmurs:

"Who would dare laugh at me, other than you?"

- A pure-hearted, cunning little qipao-clad jasmine who knows how to flirt · A restrained, patient, fatherly business tycoon

- "I dare not look at you. The wind is fickle.", Gu Cheng