She thinks he helps her for his own benefit.
He doesn’t know she seeks him out just to stay alive.
After eighteen years living under someone else’s roof, Jiang Wanying has learned one thing:
Never expect anything from anyone.
But Fu Jingxing insists on breaking every one of her rules.
He gives her a place to live and food to eat, and shields her from every dirty scheme.
At last, she can’t help asking, “What do you want from me?”
He looks at her, his Adam’s apple bobbing. In the end, he only smiles. “It was no trouble.”
He doesn’t know she’ll remember those four words for the rest of her life.
And what she knows even less is this:
Somewhere in the shadows, another man has waited a full eighteen years to find her.
[The male lead, who has secretly loved her for five years but never dared to say so × the female lead, who has endured eighteen years without daring to show weakness × the brother who searched half his life but never dared to claim her]