Childhood sweethearts + rekindled love
Scheming and restrained male lead × gentle yet strong-willed female lead
No saccharine, formulaic romance. A tender, detail-driven slow-burn love story.
- Male lead (a cunning wolf cub): On the surface, he is the mild-mannered young master of a dye house, newly returned from studying abroad. In truth, ever since he was seven, he has secretly been plotting to “marry Wantang”: hiding her handkerchief, copying her embroidery patterns, and even developing a dye called “Tang Pear Red” at the Gu family dye house, using the color of her lips as a sample. When jealous, he deliberately ruins fabric to make her mend it herself. His possessiveness is hidden in details that say, “You can only bow your head for me.”
- Female lead (gentle yet strong-willed): The last survivor of the Shen family, she runs the “Pear Fragrance Embroidery Shop” after her family’s ruin and specializes in improving qipao designs. She always wears half of a tang pear-shaped lock at her waist. She thinks the male lead is the campus heartthrob of her family’s enemy, never realizing he spent ten years learning embroidery for her, with every hidden pattern in his work depicting her profile.
