She thought she was the one who had been cast aside, never knowing that someone had spent fifteen years searching for her.
When Lin Nian was six, she lost her mother.
That same day, her father brought home his mistress and a “younger sister” only a few months younger than her.
Three days later, she was dumped in an orphanage.
Fifteen years later, at twenty-two, Lin Nian was a third-year student at Huaqing University, living in a twelve-square-meter rental and working three jobs to support herself.
She thought this was all life had in store for her: facing everything alone, holding on alone, gritting her teeth and moving forward alone.
Until the day her “father” summoned her back to marry off in her sister’s place.
Until the day she met that man at the Four Seasons Hotel.
He stood at the entrance to the terrace, looking at her against the light, his eyes filled with emotions she couldn’t understand.
That night, she received a text:
“Three days from now, the twenty-third floor of the Mo Group. I’ll be waiting. There’s a score we need to settle.”
She went.
And then she learned everything.
Her mother’s death had not been an accident. That man was the little boy she had once given half a piece of candy to, and he had kept it for fifteen years.
“I’ve been looking for you for fifteen years,” he said. “Now I’ll jump with you.”
From then on, she was no longer alone.
She would reclaim her mother’s company, uncover the truth about what happened back then, and send everyone who had hurt her to prison, one by one.
And his job was to stand behind her and catch her whenever she fell.
This is a story about love and redemption.
About how an abandoned girl takes one step at a time and becomes her own light.
And about how the person who waited fifteen years takes one step at a time into her world.
