"There are trees in the mountains, but the trees have branches, and my heart is happy for you, but you don't know it."
[The cold lady who is white and black VS the down-and-out young man who is a loyal dog]
[Ancient sayings about cruelty + fateful marriage + intertwined love and hate + running in both directions]
Deep in the cold courtyard of the Shen Mansion, Shen Qingzhi has long since become a transparent person that his father does not care for and his stepmother hates. The only companions in the morning and dusk are the frost flowers on the window lattice and the loneliness in the house. Mu Heng is a down-and-out young man who lived under the roof of the Shen Mansion after his father was recommended for treason and collaborating with the enemy.
Two lonely souls whose warmth had been crushed by the world found themselves in each other's embarrassment in the shadow of a deep house. He knelt in the rain all night and fainted, and she dragged him back to take care of him until his eyes were red." She was beaten by her stepmother until she was dying, and he carried her back to accompany her every night. This stolen warmth was like a weak candle on a winter night, knowing that it would be extinguished when the wind blew, but she couldn't help but want to hold on tight. But is this mutual sympathy a life-saving straw in a desperate situation, or is it a careful plan with each other's own agenda?
As they get along more and more, the dirt on Shen's family is peeled away bit by bit: Behind the sudden death of his biological mother is the blood feud with the Mu family in the past; under Mu Yanheng's downfall, there is an unspoken revenge plan. When the conspiracy weaves into an airtight net, trapping the two of them tightly, the warmth of the past becomes the sharpest knife. Should they escape each other amid suspicion and betrayal, and end up with the tragic ending of dying together, or should they try to grasp the slim possibility of spending the rest of their lives together in the ruins full of lies?
