Three years ago, Su Wan “perished” in a fire amid the shocking scandal at the Gu family and Lu Shiyan’s cold gaze. The brain tumor diagnosis on her medical records became the final note she left behind for the world.
Three years later, at a rainy-night charity gala, Lu Shiyan meets “Shen Nian,” a single mother with a daughter named Niannian. Her figure is slender, yet she stands tall. The timidity has faded from her features, replaced by a cool, distant beauty. Only the slight tremble in her fingers as she holds her glass reminds him of the woman who haunts his midnight dreams.
A rational business tycoon who can turn the tide with a flick of his hand, Lu Shiyan has never believed in coincidences. Yet he keeps losing control around this unfamiliar woman: his heart skips a beat when Niannian softly calls him “Uncle,” he instinctively steps in to protect her when she is bullied, and he goes lost in thought over her habits, so similar to Su Wan’s.
Shen Nian desperately hides her identity, the scar on the back of her neck that matches Lu Shiyan’s couple tattoo, and the fact that Niannian’s birth date coincides with the last time she and Lu Shiyan were together. But Lu Shiyan keeps closing in, his daughter says whatever comes to mind, and details from the past that were deliberately buried all push her toward having her true identity exposed.
When the “dead” Su Wan stands before Lu Shiyan again as Shen Nian, and he discovers that the little lock-shaped pendant on Niannian’s collar is identical to the token he prepared for his proposal years ago, this battle of wits, using misunderstandings as a shield and longing as a spear, will unleash a storm when the truth finally comes to light.
“Mr. Lu, I’m just an ordinary single mother. Please stop coming near me.” She deliberately keeps her distance.
But he grips her wrist, his eyes bloodshot and out of control. “Would an ordinary woman make it hurt just to breathe?”
