In order to save her grandma, Shi Nian broke into Gu Beichen's world and exchanged a contract for his "protection".
He was a cold and ascetic business emperor, and she was an unpopular orphan girl of the Shi family. It was originally a deal where each got what he wanted, but it quietly turned sour as they got along day after day.
He would block rumors for her, leave a light for her late at night, hide all his tenderness under a cold mask, and only reveal it to her.
When the contract expired, Gu Beichen put the starlight necklace around her neck and said in a low and serious voice: "Shi Nian, the deal is over, now I love you instead."
An entanglement that started out as helplessness ended up as his deep affection for doting on her alone.
