Yu Qing was sold by his stepmother to the Zhao family as a good-luck bride. Before the bridal veil could even be lifted, the Zhao family’s young master stopped breathing. Master Zhao planned to bury Yu Qing alive as a sacrifice, so Yu Qing fought his way out and fled into the mountains, where he passed out on a mountain path. The hunter Lu Chenshan found him while out hunting, carried him home, and saved him by feeding him water and medicine one spoonful at a time. He sold the animal hides and ancestral hunting bow and knife he had spent ten years saving, gathered enough silver to buy Yu Qing’s freedom, then shyly pushed the land deed into his hands. “Once I’ve earned enough money, I’ll marry you.” Yu Qing secretly learned embroidery and stitched his wedding clothes at night, pricking his fingers until they were covered in bloody holes. Lu Chenshan hunted in the mountains every day and returned at dusk with wild fruit tucked in his arms. When the villagers called Yu Qing ill-omened, Lu Chenshan stood at the village entrance with an axe. “If you’ve got a problem, take it up with me.” On their wedding day, there was no bridal sedan or suona music, only a newly built wooden house with a red double-happiness sign on the door. He lifted Yu Qing’s veil and kissed the top of his head. “From now on, you belong to me.” Their days in the mountains stretched on, and he turned the Yu Qing everyone else had rejected into the one and only treasure in his palm.
Cheng Fan came from a wealthy family and was outgoing and flamboyant. Qin Shixun was top of their grade, poor, patient, and resilient. When they were young, the two fell in love in secret. A jealous classmate secretly filmed them in an intimate moment and spread the footage, causing an uproar across the school. Cheng Fan’s parents forcibly sent him abroad, while Qin Shixun dropped out to work because his grandmother was gravely ill. By chance, he later entered the entertainment industry. Over the next seven years, one gritted his teeth as he took over the family business abroad, while the other worked his way up from bit parts to become an award-winning actor. Both buried their past as the one soft spot in their hearts.
