The summer she was nineteen, Xia Chu met Han Shuyi for the first time and fell in love at first sight. The next time they met, she became his kept woman, a substitute for someone else. Two years later, Liu Xiang returned. He said, "She's back. I don't want her to suffer." Xia Chu packed her things and left, thinking it had been nothing more than a business transaction, each side getting what they wanted. Little did she know she was taking something she shouldn't have.
