The Butterfly Lady of Beijing’s Elite Circle

The tangled, decade-long romance between Lin Yao, heir to a real estate empire, and Su Ran, a brilliant law student. At eighteen, Su Ran fell for the aloof “Mr. Butterfly” like a moth to a flame, only to have reality scorch her wings in the brightest years of her youth. Seven years later, a family crisis thrusts her, broken and battered, back into Lin Yao’s world. The man who once tied her wrists with his necktie now begins weaving a gentle cocoon around her for the rest of his life. Behind the butterfly origami that says “the moonlight shines brightest on the balcony” lies a romance the businessman dares not speak aloud; the record of a 500-million-yuan transfer bears the clumsy sincerity of the powerful. When moonlight falls on her bottle of antidepressants, he finally learns to let go, and she finally understands: all along, whenever the butterfly beat its wings, it was shielding her from the storm.