Qi Yanshen has never cared about anyone, until he meets Lu Miao at a party.
The young man who stains his suit doesn't cry or beg for mercy. He only looks up with damp eyes and says, "I'll pay you back." Like a little beast that has been beaten by life too many times and has long since learned not to cry out in pain.
He makes an exception and keeps Lu Miao by his side, personally "disciplining" him. If he gets a plan wrong, he has to do it again. If he's late, he has to copy lines as punishment. If he talks back, he gets a smack on the palm. Everyone says President Qi has gone crazy. Only he knows that he's not tormenting Lu Miao. He's keeping him by his side in the only way he knows how.
Lu Miao should be afraid. But after Qi Yanshen scolds him, he leaves out a box of milk candies. After punishing him, he helps him apply an ice pack. When Lu Miao is cornered by his uncle with nowhere to turn, Qi says coldly, "From now on, I'll take care of you." In twenty-two years of living under someone else's roof, it is the first time anyone has told him: You can make mistakes, but you have to become better.
But Qi Yanshen's possessiveness keeps clashing with Lu Miao's stubbornness, until a deliberate act of violence pushes them to the brink of collapse. Lu Miao, covered in blood and curled up in a corner, cries and asks, "Will you abandon me?"
Meanwhile, Lu Miao's friend Xie Sixia is being gently trapped in a web by a warm and refined senior doctor. He doesn't know that Wen Zhuoqing has been secretly photographing him for seven years, or that every "coincidence" has been carefully arranged. He only knows that when the truth is ripped open, he can't bring himself to run away.
This is a story about people who fear being abandoned, and how they clumsily learn to love. When it is time to hurt, there is no holding back; when it is time to cherish you, they would give you their life.
You are my rules, and my exception.
Not bad at all!