[1v1, a powerful duo, both pure and a happy ending, master restorer of painted art x queen of security]
Su Zhiqing was crouched on a beam in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, installing security sensors, when a man in moon-white Hanfu suddenly grabbed her wrist. “Drill any more holes and you’ll ruin a hundred-year-old painting!”
The man was Lu Yanci, a god in the painted-art restoration world. His mastery of gilding and raised pigments could bring ruined paintings back to life, yet he was always at odds with her, a die-hard advocate of tech and infrastructure.
Before she could retort, the monitoring system for the ancient buildings was hacked and a Ming-dynasty painting was stolen. The police made their decision: “You two are working together on this case. We need both of you!”
She used AI to trace the thieves’ movements, while he could spot a forgery just by looking at the pigment. When villains tied her up in an underground tomb, he charged in with his restoration knife and crushed some blood-staunching herbs to apply to her wound. “Don’t die. Your security network still has paintings to protect.”
On a rainy night when she had a fever, he stood by her bedside and sketched security plans with pine-soot ink. “Actually... you look pretty good crouched on a beam installing equipment.”
At an intangible cultural heritage exhibition, someone smeared their names, claiming they were “mixing business with private matters.” Lu Yanci immediately shielded her. “Su Zhiqing’s network is armor protecting the paintings. I protect her because she’s the one in my heart.”
From trading barbs to protecting treasures side by side, from clashing over technology and tradition to sharing the same heartbeat...
Only then did Su Zhiqing realize that the most heart-stirring romance was him writing her love poems with painted art, while she used her security network to shield him from wind and rain.
But a secret letter in an ancient underground tomb rocked them: their ancestors had already been an extraordinary treasure-protecting duo, fighting side by side...
