A chance meeting at a home design exhibition sparks an attraction between a designer and a wealthy young heir as their creative ideas collide. He takes her to a midnight exhibition at a private gallery; she shows him the everyday warmth of a soy milk shop tucked down an alley. Then comes the lavish family banquet that changes their fate
Beneath the crystal chandeliers, she wears a rented dress and heels that have rubbed her feet raw, enduring the wealthy ladies’ disdain and mockery.
Amid the clinking glasses and bustling guests, he grips her sweaty palm, seeing for the first time the brutal edge of the world beyond his gilded cage.
When her father’s critical condition collides with a rival’s frame-up, Lin Yue tears Gu Huai’s check to pieces in the pouring rain:
“What could I possibly give you in return? My pride, nailed to a pillar of shame? Or the trending hashtag ‘The History of a Gold-Digging Designer’s Rise to the Top’?”
And when Gu’s mother slaps her prenatal test results down on the negotiating table, Lin Yue finally realizes that the bond quietly growing inside her has become the last straw.
“Do you want him to give up three generations of family legacy for you, or do you want your child to be called illegitimate forever?”
She pushes her lover into a marriage alliance with her own hands, unaware that Gu Huai has kept the yellowed pregnancy test in his suit pocket all along.
Five years later, at the Milan Design Week awards ceremony, he sees her in a wheelchair through the glare of the spotlights. His brooch conceals the camellia design she created all those years ago.
She brushes the old scar on her ring finger and smiles faintly. In the display case, the works in her “Mountains and Seas” collection shimmer with tear tracks of silver and gold.
