Insecure, touch-starved, pitiful male lead × bookish, bright, and thoughtful female lead
Content notes: Both leads are virgins, the male lead has had a crush on her for ten years, and he’s the more emotionally vulnerable one. The female lead has had a first love, but they weren’t together because of love. The male lead isn’t a traditional domineering CEO type. He’s entirely self-made and changes his name for love.
Fu Chaoxi, 28, is a young lecturer at a leading provincial university’s School of Literature. Born into a family of scholars, she specializes in ancient scripts and is also an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of epigraphy rubbing.
Lu Qichen, 28, is a tech tycoon who commands the respect of the entire city, a top science prodigy with a cool, solitary nature. He grew up alone and unloved, sensitive and carrying a deep-seated inferiority complex.
After her family’s fall from grace, Fu Chaoxi ignores her mother and brother’s objections and volunteers to enter a marriage of convenience with Lu Qichen.
Everyone says he’s cold-hearted and indifferent to love, and that their marriage is nothing more than a transaction for mutual benefit.
The facts seem to bear that out.
After the wedding, he is restrained and distant, always courteous and careful to keep his distance,
quietly playing the part of the perfect husband under contract.
Fu Chaoxi assumes they’ll treat each other with respect and spend their lives together in quiet harmony.
To her, this marriage of convenience is simply an imperfect compromise between two adults.
But nobody knows that this seemingly abstinent, cold-blooded tech tycoon has been secretly in love with her for ten whole years.
To get closer to her and become someone worthy of her, he changed his own name.
Fu Chaoxi: her name evokes the brilliant light of dawn breaking over the world;
he renamed himself Qichen, hoping only to rest beneath her light, borrow a little warmth, and spend the rest of his life escaping his loneliness.
She was the only woman he had ever fallen for. But when he was young, he was mired in hardship and could only admire her from afar. Now, this happiness feels like a dream, and he is willing to lose himself in it.
