"The Glimmer of Ember" is an urban romance novel set in "Ming City". It tells the story of the sadomasochistic entanglement between an ordinary designer assistant Su Wan and a chaebol heir Lu Chengyu. The core focus is on the metaphors of "the heroine's self-redemption" and "the hero's blindness."
Due to his childhood shadow, Lu Chengyu was full of prejudice against "women who cling to rich families"; Su Wan once regarded him as a glimmer of light in life, but after he was deceived by the forged evidence of his cousin Lu Manqi, he was publicly humiliated and eventually took his mother away.
Five years later, Su Wan was reborn with his design talent and returned to Mingcheng to set up a studio and become a cutting-edge designer. After Lu Chengyu learned the truth, he regretted it, but he only received Su Wan's sober rejection, "I can shine on my own." In the end, Su Wan lived an independent and free life, while Lu Chengyu paid for his choice in loneliness for the rest of his life.
It feels pretty good, right?