She thought this would be a cold marriage of convenience.
But he had spent half a year secretly in love with her, and staked his whole future on her.
She is Swan Medical’s youngest star surgeon, aloof and solitary, unwilling to rely on anyone.
He is the ailing, formidable head of the Lu Group, obsessive and devoted, with hidden claws.
One agreement, for two years.
He needs a wife in name only to stabilize his position. She needs the backing of a powerful family to investigate her origins.
They each get what they need, neat and simple.
What she doesn’t know is that ever since the banquet six months ago, he hasn’t been able to take his eyes off her.
On their honeymoon in Paris, he falls ill in the middle of the night, and she feeds him his medicine with tears in her eyes;
When she is harassed at a banquet, he squeezes her hand beneath the table;
When she is kidnapped, he launches a frantic international rescue. In a pool of blood, she says, “I knew you’d come.”
He pretends to be cold, restrained, and indifferent.
She stubbornly denies her feelings, but when he tears up the contract, her eyes turn red.
“Lu Linyan, stop pretending. If you want to keep an eye on me, just say so.”
Then her true origins come to light: she is the sole surviving heir of the fallen Shen family, once a powerful dynasty.
As business rivals close in and debts pile up, he would rather bear it all alone than let her come to harm.
But she drops everything and rushes to Hangzhou through the rain, stopping him by West Lake.
“No matter what happens, we’ll face it together.”
A plum-blossom jade pendant, a promise kept across two generations.
Plum blossoms fall in the snow, and when winter passes, spring returns.
I hold fast to the plum blossom in this life, only to return with you.
