[Two male leads + white moonlight + coercive romance + groveling for forgiveness + real and fake stand-ins + no transmigration or rebirth]
The mountains knew no seasons. Eight years of peace were shattered when Ji Xing, unable to see or speak, was sold to the Flower House by a trafficker.
Because he looked so much like Xiao Lin's deceased first love, the playboy prince led him on step by step. Hearing himself called “Mister” again and again, Ji Xing became convinced that he was the prince's first love.
Aside from his face, Ji Xing's actions and habits were all uncannily similar to the first love's. Xiao Lin's feelings for him gradually crossed the line, becoming more than mere attachment to a stand-in.
Ji Xing seemed like a chess piece carefully prepared just for him. Xiao Lin fell deeper and deeper, yet stayed on his guard, until someone identical to his first love appeared. He promptly withdrew and sent Ji Xing to the bed of a powerful minister.
Only then did Ji Xing learn that he wasn't the “Mister” Xiao Lin had called him, but a stand-in. For someone who knows nothing of love, discovering it can be an overwhelming experience. From then on, he renounced love and became the cold-hearted master of the Winter Pride Pavilion, a post that had been vacant at the Flower House for five years.
Watching Ji Xing play chess, play the zither, and blend fragrances with someone else, Xiao Lin went mad...
“Birth, aging, illness, death, meeting those you resent, parting from those you love, and yearning for what you cannot have” are the seven sufferings.
Love poured into the strings: whose heart was moved, and whose feelings remained hidden?
Is it fate or a calamity? Who can say?
Fate and calamity entwined, love and hate intertwined.
