Lin Wanzhao was once the brightest star in architectural design. But a carefully engineered plagiarism scandal ruined her reputation and sent her tumbling from the heights into the gutter. At the darkest point in her life, she took on a new identity and became an ordinary employee at a heritage architecture restoration firm on the verge of bankruptcy. She thought she would spend the rest of her life in silence and resentment, until she met the firm’s new partner: Lu Chenzhou, the man who had once pinned her to a pillar of shame in court with his coldest words.
Lu Chenzhou was an undefeated lawyer renowned in the industry, famous for his rationality and cold demeanor. Was his arrival a cruel joke of fate, or was there more to it? As the long-buried case resurfaced and the truths and lies of the past wove into a vast web, the two became tightly entangled. Was he carefully plotting each move to atone, or did he have another agenda? Was she cautiously testing him, or had she already fallen? Beneath a sagging roof and amid the shifting light and shadows of carved beams and painted rafters, two broken souls tested one another and found redemption together. When deadwood blooms again, can roses of love truly grow from the ruins?
