When the Ice Breaks, Flowers Bloom

Love at first sight vs. love that grows over time vs. stand-in for the unattainable first love vs. sudden wealth for the poor vs. domineering, sweet romance

Main story: a growing little schemer × a cold, domineering CEO who raises her

At eighteen, Chen Miao is covered in wounds. Clutching her torn university admission letter, she casts aside her dignity and kneels at the feet of Ji Xinghe, who is dressed in a white bathrobe. She hopes he’ll pay 100,000 yuan to buy the next ten years of her youth.

She is begging to survive, and also begging to die.

When I met you, the ice broke and flowers bloomed.