Heir to the Huo family, with influence in both the criminal underworld and the legitimate world, he is cold and ruthless, and doesn’t believe there is any light in the world.
She is a university student from a family of scholars, with long hair down to her waist. Pure-hearted and stubborn, she stumbles into his world and becomes his one and only ray of warmth.
One rainy night, he pays off her gambling debts in exchange for a marriage contract. She thinks it’s a transaction, but when he tastes the longevity noodles she accidentally overcooked, he experiences the warmth of home for the first time. He teaches her to dance with quiet restraint, while she gently tells stories to an injured boy. Their feelings quietly take root as they cautiously test the waters. On a beach at sunset, he tells her about his tragic childhood for the first time. She says, “You won’t be alone anymore.” It is the sweetest moment in the whole story.
But the wealthy and powerful world is full of treacherous depths. A forged photograph and a deliberately induced miscarriage shatter her completely. She signs the divorce papers and leaves the country, covered in wounds. To return to her with a clean conscience, he cripples his own power and breaks with his family, spending three years cleaning up all his gray-market businesses.
When they meet again in a small town, he stands in the rain and says, “I never had a first love. I never did. The day we lost the baby, I almost killed everyone. I’m looking for you not because I owe you, but because you’re the only one I want in this life, Huo Hanting.”
From a deal made on a rainy night to a proposal on an island, from a miscarriage and a bitter breakup to his arduous quest to win her back, this is a story about two broken souls saving each other. He softens his sharp edges for her, and she becomes the only light in his dark world. It turns out love means that even if you push me away ten thousand times, I’ll still come to you for the ten-thousand-and-first.
A rekindled love story, warm and healing.
