Dual male leads + Palace Museum setting + mutual healing + sweet romance
Beneath the red walls of the Palace Museum, Shen Qingci is a cool, solitary restorer of antiquities, with elegant features and a heart as cold as snow on a lofty peak, untouched by worldly dust.
Then Su Jinye barges into his life. A prickly, fiery beauty with flirtatious peach-blossom eyes and a red mole at the corner of his eye, he is a wild, unrestrained blaze who insists on teasing this cool, aloof man.
At their first meeting, one thinks the other is stiff and old-fashioned, while the other finds him flighty. They argue until they’re red in the face beneath the red walls.
As they grow closer, one shields the other from trouble and sticks up for him, while the other makes him warm congee and softens his heart. Sandalwood from the restoration room mingles with the young man’s citrus scent, quietly melting the snow.
Once love takes hold, the cool beauty sheds his distance and gives all his tenderness to his fiery little darling, letting that wild flame burn into his heart.
With the red walls as their witness and the antiques as their matchmaker, it turns out that from the very first glance, his cool reserve was meant to melt only for him, and he would rein in his sharp edges for no one else.
“Shen Qingci, you’re as cold as ice, yet you insist on warming me up.”
“Su Jinye, I want to melt my cool reserve for you alone.”
