When Ji Yunfan was five, he was adopted by the Ji family, one of the four great families in the capital. After his adoption, he took his good friend’s name and became the Ji family’s second son, Ji Yunfan. From then on, the little beggar Shitou, whose parents had died young and who survived by begging, became the second young master of the Ji family in the capital.
Adopted by Old Master Ji at the age of five, he became the Ji family’s second son. But he knew the truth: he was only a substitute, a stand-in with the same name as the Ji Yunfan who had perished in a fire at the age of five. From his very first day in the Ji family, he had known exactly who he was, so he was always cautious and never dared to overstep.
On her thirteenth birthday, Ren Sixian learned that her parents were getting divorced. Soon after the divorce, each parent started a new family and had another child. Neither of them wanted to take care of her. Five years after graduating from university, she opened her own dessert shop. It did not earn much, but it was enough to support herself. Later, she bought a home of her own and rarely visited her parents after that.
Ji Yunfan and Ren Sixian were each struggling through their own lives when an accident brought them together. After enduring one setback after another, they finally cast aside everything that stood in their way and came together, moving forward side by side. They walked through a thorny world against the light, becoming each other’s salvation…
