The Pursuit of Love

Xiao Jingyuan:

When I was eighteen, I was forced to give up my studies and take over my father’s life’s work. From then on, the sunny young man Xiao Jingyuan was gone, replaced by the “cold CEO” and “father figure to his younger siblings.” No one cared how the inexperienced boy was battered again and again by the rules of survival, forced to build walls around himself. I shut my heart to love and walked alone until I was twenty-eight, when a radiant young man peeled away my tough exterior and cradled the vulnerability I’d kept wrapped up inside. He was like a beam of light breaking into the darkness. Even a brief moment of warmth filled me with joy, and made me greedy for more. I was full of fear and uncertainty. I held back and kept myself in check. I was so afraid I couldn’t hold on to that light...

Wang Mohan:

I never thought I’d fall for a man, much less a noble rose covered in thorns. We were as far apart as the clouds and the sea, and even my love had to be buried in my heart. The shackles of convention, the distance that seemed impossible to bridge: it felt as if our ending had already been written by fate. But I don’t want to accept my lot. I want to fight fate for you! I’ll carry my rose toward the light and tell the whole world that I love him...

(Both leads are strong, uplifting, healing, and devoted to pure love)