Five years ago, a 32-character text message ended Cheng Wan's three-year relationship. There was no warning or explanation: the day before he said, "I will take you to see the sea on the weekend." Shen Jibai disappeared the next day. She searched around and finally learned from the school forum that he had dropped out of school and returned home to inherit the business. Cheng Wan spent five years forcing herself to accept the simplest and most painful conclusion - he was no longer in love, and the campus love of a rich young man ended after graduation.
Little did she know that it was his father who pressed the send button of the text message. That year, Cheng's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and Shen Yuanzhou used the only life-saving clinical trial quota to force Shen Jibai to drop out of school, break up, and return to the family. On the day of farewell, he tied up her wind-tossed hair and said only, "I'm leaving first." Then he wrote a text message in the office, using his departure to buy her mother's life.
Five years later, the two met again in the Shen Pharmaceutical conference room: she was the director invited to make a corporate documentary, and he was the acting CEO. They shook hands and exchanged pleasantries, pretending to be strangers, until in the empty corridor, he called her by her full name: "Some things are not what you see."
The deeper the filming goes, the darker the truth becomes: behind the glamor of Shen's Pharmaceuticals lies falsified clinical data, and a death disguised as an accident - the deceased turned out to be Cheng Wan's father. Shen Jibai is torn between protecting her and preserving the family; Cheng's mother's condition becomes critical again; fiancée Lu Qingge also changes from a rival to an unexpected ally.
When the whole truth of five years ago was revealed, Cheng Wan realized that the person she had hated for five years had shielded her from the storm she would never know. But knowing it is harder than not knowing it.
