Chu Linfeng: Thirty years old, head of a top law firm. Refined and aristocratic in bearing, strikingly handsome, wealthy and brilliant, he has long worn an air of cool detachment that keeps others at a distance. His innate sense of superiority is etched into his bones, and arrogance comes naturally to him. He despises scheming Cinderella types who deliberately latch on to others and put on a false act.
Fu Zirou: Twenty-two years old, a fresh-faced intern at a financial radio station. Gentle and pure-hearted, bright as the morning sun, she has a warmth in her eyes and brows that makes her seem like a clean, radiant little sun to everyone around her. After life's trials have worn away her youthful innocence, she grows into an independent woman who is cool-headed and self-possessed, intelligent and reserved.
Frost clouds Chu Linfeng's eyes as he speaks, every word cold and cutting:
“No wonder people at the firm say that anyone with ‘Yan’ or ‘Rou’ in her name is a schemer. It seems the rumors are entirely true.”
“You're so young and already on the wrong path. What makes you think I, Chu Linfeng, couldn't possibly do without you?” His light dismissal, “You don't know your place,” crushes her self-respect.
With his innate arrogance and prejudice, during the internship that matters most to her, he uses the most humiliating means to push her into a dead end and force her to leave in despair. At the time, he is full of contempt and never gives the bright young woman a second thought. But only after Fu Zirou vanishes from his world does panic finally seize him. Chu Linfeng draws on his power, family connections, and friends with near-obsessive determination, searching the entire city for her. But the girl whose eyes curved when she smiled, whose warmth was like sunshine and whose quiet beauty was like moonlight, disappears from the world without a trace, never to be found again.
