[Distinguished top lawyer from Beijing’s elite circles x cool, breathtakingly beautiful teacher]
[Mutual healing + heartwarming + slow-burn romance + devoted husband]
When Shen Muhuan was fifteen, she personally sent her father to prison.
After the trial, her mother slapped her. “You ungrateful, heartless girl! He’s your father!”
Her father went to prison, her mother remarried, and Shen Muhuan was left with her grandparents, living on edge.
Ten years later, she moved to Beijing and rented a place in an old, supposedly haunted neighborhood on the outskirts.
Her neighbors said the place was full of bad energy and that they heard crying in the middle of the night. She only smiled. Ghosts frightened her less than people did.
Then, on a rainy night, she came face-to-face with someone etched into her memory.
It was him, the young lawyer who had defended her at the trial all those years ago. He had told her, “You did nothing wrong. Be brave.”
Ten years later, he was still there, watching her through the rain.
He said, “When you were fifteen, everyone in that courtroom was watching you. You were trembling, but you didn’t cry. You were scared, but you didn’t back down.”
His eyes reddened. “At that moment, I thought: this is the bravest person I’ve ever met.”
Choking back tears, he said, “So please, be brave one more time. Run to me.”
Tears welled in her eyes. “I’m tainted.”
“You’re not the one who’s tainted,” he said, each word clear. “That animal is.”
Only later did she learn that he had quietly watched over her for twenty years.
