In high school, Song Xuan always had a flustered "little shadow" following him. Whenever he turned around, she'd bend down to tie her shoe. If he deliberately slowed his pace, she'd follow step by step, walking in his shadow.
At last, one day, he watched the girl work up the courage to approach him, only for her to ask if she could meet his friend.
Song Xuan was certain this was a roundabout tactic, the kind of thing girls did when they didn't mean what they said. That was, until one day he caught her kicking a pebble by the roadside with a stiff expression, growling in frustration, "Only an idiot would like him!"
While studying abroad, she smiled and burst back into his world. "Song Xuan, can I come visit you often from now on?"
He suppressed his excitement and spent two years happily keeping her company.
Then she suddenly pulled away and returned home, leaving him only a cold, decisive rejection: "I don't want to be friends. Don't see me again."
Years later, they met again. She was now a dazzling star beneath the spotlights.
At a London flower shop variety show, their eyes met. He approached in a daze, only to get a fleeting glance from her. Her voice was as distant as if she were speaking to a stranger: "Sir, would you like to buy flowers?"
Later, Song Xuan personally sabotaged her engagement party...
On the day Yu Nian got engaged to Qi Lin, a twist of fate landed her in Song Xuan's bed. Everyone denounced her, saying she'd resorted to underhanded tricks to marry into the Song family.
Even she began to doubt herself. Had she acted so scandalously in a drunken haze because she couldn't accept how things had turned out?
It wasn't until later that she learned the person who truly couldn't accept it was someone else.
