After seven years of dating, Shen Qingyue is betrayed by her fiancé at their engagement banquet. The eighty-eight-thousand-eight-hundred-yuan bride price he promised her is handed to his “poor” sister-in-law instead, while Shen Qingyue is left with just 8,800 yuan and a humiliating set of three quilts.
When she grits her teeth and calls off the engagement, she reunites with Qi Shiye, her first love, who once left without a word.
He closes in on her step by step under the guise of being her “uncle.” Though he teases her to her face, he quietly clears away rumors and shields her from attacks both open and covert.
As family schemes, an obsessive ex, and a vicious sister-in-law’s kidnapping plot come one after another, he doesn’t hesitate to risk his life to protect her.
Only then does Shen Qingyue finally discover that the supposed affair was actually his way of risking his life to protect her while trapped in a power struggle...
This time, she will never let go of his hand again.
