Beneath the Roses Lies His One-of-a-Kind Salvation

[Second Chances After a Breakup / School Life / Healing / Happy Ending]

[Sensitive, proud, and scheming campus beauty × Gentle, sincere programming prodigy]

It all began with an act of exploitation she could never speak of.

Back then, young Jiang Xia was trapped in a quagmire. Desperate to escape her stepbrother's clutches, she had no choice but to reach out to Shen Yucheng, the favored son of heaven.

Heaven is fair.

It gave her extreme poverty, but also granted her peerless beauty.

And Jiang Xia used that beauty to seduce the boy and make him fall for her.

What she didn't know was that she'd lost her own heart, too. She left it on the school platform one breezy afternoon.

Back then, he smiled at her and said, “Jiang Xia, we’ll both have a bright future...”

She believed him.

But when are things in this world ever that simple?

Her obsessive stepbrother, who just wouldn't go away, and a seemingly sweet but secretly calculating rich young man took turns making their moves. Their trust teetered on the brink, and their young love came to a tragic end.

A black rose blooming in barren soil could never stand in the sunlight.

Perhaps the ending was fated from the very beginning, with that first mistake.

So Jiang Xia quietly buried the boy in her heart.

Until many years later...

A man with familiar eyes and brows pinned her against a wall, his scorching gaze almost burning her.

“You said you were selfish and scheming, and asked why I had to fall for you. I’ve thought about that question for years, and now I have an answer.”

“W... what is it?” She struggled to keep her trembling hands still, her eyes dry.

“Because I was the one who tended that rose. I shielded her from the wind, heard her cheers and sorrows, and saw all her pride and insecurity.”

He looked at Jiang Xia, his eyes crinkling as he spoke in a gentle voice.

“Because she is my rose, she is one of a kind.”