Heart-Pounding! The Gods Came for Her

[A Polished Scoundrel ✖️ A Softhearted, Resilient Little Bunny]

In the quiet, remote town of Jiangcheng, Jiang Muchen was staying as an honored guest at a temple on the mountaintop. The first time Shen Huandu saw him, she startled him and interrupted his writing.

Later, on a drizzle-soaked street where passersby hurried along, he stood apart from the world. Shen Huandu rose onto her toes and held an oil-paper umbrella over him.

She thought it was just a brief encounter between strangers who happened to cross paths.

But after her grandmother died, Shen Huandu, an orphan with no parents, was thrown out by her relatives.

With nowhere to go, she summoned her courage and clutched the hem of his clothes.

Nobody else wanted her. Only he did.

The day she left the town of Jiangcheng, rain drifted past the car window.

The mountains surrounding the town grew smaller and smaller in the distance.

The temple on the mountain, which held so many of Shen Huandu's memories, had long since faded from view.

[But beyond the temple, she found her own god.]

For years, Jiang Muchen had lived a life of quiet restraint, indifferent and without desire when it came to love.

No one expected that he would end up falling for a young woman.

The actress who had loved him for so long wept so hard her face was streaked with tears.

“Didn't you say you could never settle when it came to love? Why are you willing to settle for her?”

The man's cold gaze rested on her face for a moment. He spoke each word with solemn sincerity:

“What I have with her isn't settling.”

He chose her willingly. For him, no one else would do.

“Read on, and away we go, a thousand miles through misty waves, beneath deep twilight and vast Chu skies.”

Jiang Muchen ✖️ Shen Huandu