When she was eleven, the girl saw her mother chop her father down right beside her. Her mother had married the wrong man after falling in love too young, and endured domestic abuse for ten years. With her father dead and her mother in prison, the girl grew distant and withdrawn.
When she was fifteen, by the rippling lake in Qingbo, Jiangcheng, the girl met a boy. He came from Shencheng and was the son of its richest man. But a car crash orchestrated by a conspiracy killed both his parents, left his little sister unable to walk, and burst his eardrums with the force of the explosion. He became hard of hearing, then completely deaf.
At the time, the boy practiced the violin by the lake. The girl, who sat there day after day in a daze, caught his attention as his only audience.
That sweltering summer, the boy and girl met and grew close. She relied on him so much that he jokingly called her his “little shadow.” He celebrated her birthday, and when he was in danger, she grabbed a rock and struck his attacker. They became each other’s light and salvation. But when the boy’s illness flared up, his uncle sent him abroad before he could say goodbye. He was gone for ten years.
Ten years later, the girl had become Xia Yue, a cool and aloof supermodel. The boy wore hearing aids and became Shawn Pei Yi, a renowned violinist.
At a jewelry gala, Pei Yi suddenly appeared, warm and gentle as ever. He put an arm around Xia Yue’s slender waist and murmured in his deep voice, “Little shadow, I’m back.”
Notes:
1. The leads have only ever been with each other, and this is a one-on-one romance. They both pursue and save each other, and they take down the villains together. The heroine is cool and aloof, and knows how to fight.
2. The supporting cast is a highlight, with distinctive personalities and plenty of surprises: a perceptive, beautiful mermaid younger sister and a wounded veteran who has given up on life; a bisexual, golden-haired senior and a goofy uncle who’s a business prodigy.
