“Five hundred thousand. In exchange, you give up your design and our relationship.”
On that rainy night five years ago, Xu Xingran clutched a buyout contract and “intimate photos” as Lu Chengyu personally drove her out of Lin City. The boy who had once promised to pluck the stars from the sky for her ended everything in the cruelest way.
Five years later, she returns with an international design gold award.
On the red carpet, she's a rising designer in the spotlight. Behind the scenes, she's determined to uncover every unanswered question from the past. A mysterious donation of rare fabric, special treatment at the exhibition's prime spot, and a timely clarification during a plagiarism scandal: every “coincidence” points to the person she hates most.
Lu Chengyu has become the youngest head of the Lu Group, with his elegant and poised fiancée, Shen Yuwei, by his side. Everyone says how wise his decision five years ago was.
Until the night of the victory banquet, when a torrential rain is pouring down. Soaked to the skin, he storms into the venue and drops to one knee before everyone, holding out the star-shaped ring that is five years late.
“I'm sorry I kept you waiting for five years.”
Only then do people learn the truth: the five hundred thousand was meant to save her design patent from a pack of wolves; the photo was of the younger sister he had just found again; and for five years, he had sacrificed his health, his inheritance, and even his reputation to build a wall of protection around her.
His cruelest scheme of all was to let her hate him for the rest of her life if that was what it took to get her safely out of the storm.
The starlight had never gone out.
Someone had loved her in the quietest way for five whole years.
