[Older man romance × calculated at every step, long in the making × mutual salvation]
[Looks sweet and obedient but has a fiery nature × aloof, refined power player]
Zhixia was the unwanted burden her mother brought along when she remarried into the Yun family. After entering the family, she became Yun Zhixia.
From an early age, she understood one thing: she would never get the good things, but she could always count on being blamed for the bad.
When Yun Jinning, the Yun family heiress, refused to marry into the Sheng family and fled abroad, Yun Zhixia became the unlucky stand-in bride.
It was the Sheng family patriarch’s seventieth birthday, and every branch of the family had to attend, including his future wife.
At the banquet, Yun Zhixia met Sheng Qingye, the man rumored to be rebellious yet refined and aloof.
Following the marriage arrangement, Yun Zhixia called him, “Third Uncle.”
For the first time, the usually composed man darkened his expression in front of everyone and hurriedly left halfway through the banquet.
Late that night, Yun Zhixia received a text: Sheng Shiyao is here. Come pick him up.
When Yun Zhixia arrived, she looked through a crack in the door and witnessed her arranged fiancé putting on a steamy, real-life performance.
A broad, dry palm covered her eyes. A low voice, filled with restraint, asked, “Do you still want to marry someone like that?”
Later, Sheng Qingye kept appearing at Yun Zhixia’s side, helping her out of trouble and rescuing her from danger.
Yun Zhixia always thought it was coincidence, never knowing that every seemingly accidental encounter had been carefully arranged by Sheng Qingye.
Sheng Qingye had never thought of himself as a good man. Scheming ran deep in his bones.
She didn’t remember him, but that didn’t matter. He had never forgotten her...
[Some feelings are impossible to rein in from the very start]
