When a typhoon struck Mist Isle the year they were ten, he hid her behind a reef, clasped her hand, and said, “Wait for me to come back.”
She waited for twenty whole years.
Shen Zhiyu, an obsessive and unhinged architectural tycoon, spent twenty years searching for his little star.
From a penniless orphan to one of the country's leading architects, he hid her name in every building he designed. Ever since he was ten, his whole world had revolved around her.
Su Wanxing, a gentle and resilient restorer of ancient books, struggled for over twenty years through a family that favored sons over daughters, believing she was nothing but a weed nobody wanted.
It wasn't until the day they reunited that she learned someone had searched for her for twenty years, loved her all his life, and cherished her as the only light in his world.
From an uncontrolled embrace and confession on a rainy night to standing side by side amid a storm of online hate; from tearing down a vicious stepmother and the shackles of her upbringing to safeguarding a thousand-year-old cultural legacy beneath the sea.
He weathered every storm for her, and she lit up the darkness of half his life.
This is a devoted one-on-one romance with mutual healing, sweetness and angst intertwined, from childhood sweethearts to growing old together.
A search spanning twenty years finally leads to a happily-ever-after for a lifetime.
When the mist lifts, the stars shine bright, and the boat returns to the island shore. You are the one I would cross lifetimes to find.
