[Powerful Man Bows His Head + Faux Forbidden Romance + Angsty Love + Mutual Devotion + Groveling to Win Her Back + Traditional Velvet Flower Craft]
The year her mother remarried, Qiao Suwan lost her home.
Her memories are filled with scenes of her biological father’s drunkenness and violence.
After her father dies, she seeks out her mother to pay her grandmother’s medical bills, and from then on stays with the Chen family during every winter and summer vacation.
Everyone says her mother was a homewrecker and assumes she, too, plans to marry into a powerful family under the pretense of being a “little sister.”
But only Qiao Suwan knows that the first to draw her into the abyss was the renowned beauty of Kyoto, aloof as a mountain peak.
Love became a cage, and she sank deeper with every step.
She gave in to wishful thinking, only to be knocked from the heights by an arranged marriage.
Qiao Suwan no longer wants to be the one kept hidden in the dark. This relationship should be sealed away forever.
At last, she decides they should each go their own way.
Blind dates, marrying someone else
She follows her mother’s wishes and agrees to an arranged marriage, trying to be a dutiful daughter.
On the day of her engagement, the aloof beauty corners her against a wall, his dark eyes deep as an abyss. “How high is that gate? I’ll tear it down and make it a stepping-stone for you.”
If she dares not reach for a powerful family, he will pave the way into a smooth, open road.
The elite among Kyoto’s powerful families is willing to become her devoted servant!
In that moment, Qiao Suwan realizes he has gone mad.
Pretty good, very good.