Two top students × secret crushes become mutual love × two intelligent, devoted leads × healing × growing together in family and love
Everyone knows that Fu Siyan, a rising star among the new elite, is aloof and solitary, decisive and ruthless. Through his own efforts, he established himself in finance and technology. No one knows that he is the younger son of the Fu family, hidden from the world, bearing old emotional wounds and concealing his identity for years, trapped in a silent cage of his own making.
At a global quantitative trading competition spanning ten countries, he met Mai Suwen, the eldest daughter of the Mai family of Lingnan. She was cool and composed, with a clear-eyed nature. Though she had earned the chance to attend Yale, she chose to return home and stay close to the land she loved. From then on, Fu Siyan built a private algorithmic model named after her. Its millions of lines of cold data could calculate market fluctuations and the pros and cons of human nature, but not the secret feelings stirring within him.
He hid all his possessiveness and tenderness in a plain ring engraved with an ear of wheat, never speaking of them aloud. An old kidnapping case remained unresolved, and danger lurked all around them. To protect his elder brother’s peace and ensure her life would be free of worry, he deliberately took a different path and set off alone toward an uncertain future overseas. Everyone thought they were headed in different directions and would never meet again, but no one knew they had an entire year together, a blank stretch of time all their own.
On one side was an obsessive young man divided between light and darkness, concealing his love in silence. On the other was a clear-headed, self-possessed heiress, gentle yet resolute. When algorithms shatter tenderness and a cage finally meets the evening breeze, every deliberate separation becomes preparation for a grand and singular reunion.
