After ten years of unrequited love, Shen Nanqiao thought she would spend her whole life in Fu Sinian's shadow. In everyone's eyes, she was merely his "backup option," someone Fu Sinian used to fill the void left by his true love, Shen Ruolan. That all changed on a rainy night, when she caught Fu Sinian showing his comatose beloved a possessive tenderness. Her ten years of love came crashing down.
Just as she was at her most desperate, Xie Chen, the "crybaby" she had protected as a child, appeared by chance. He was no longer the frail boy he had once been, but a woodcarver capable of sheltering her from the storm. As Fu Sinian's humiliation and Shen Ruolan's schemes piled up, her career collapsed and her reputation was ruined. Yet Xie Chen always stood before her, cutting through the brambles with the resilience of a carving knife. He rebuilt her shattered career, cleared her name of malicious rumors, and, with his day-after-day companionship, slowly thawed her frozen heart.
Fu Sinian's belated remorse came too late, and Shen Ruolan's schemes kept coming. But under Xie Chen's protection, Shen Nanqiao finally understood: true love is never about looking up at someone from a place of humility, but about the warmth of standing side by side. From their parting beneath the cherry blossoms to the night they pledged their love in the mountain rain, from the undercurrents before their wedding to the international crisis they faced as a married couple, their love grew stronger with every trial.
This is more than a redemption spanning ten years. It is also a legacy of love and choice passed down through two generations. Xie Chen records their story in wood, from the stirrings of young love to their steadfast devotion in old age. Every stroke bears the vow, "For all the years to come, through wind and rain, we will face them together." As the pain of the past becomes a medal earned through the years, and Fu Sinian's regret and Shen Ruolan's obsession fade into dust, Shen Nanqiao finally falls completely in love with Xie
