The male lead chases his wife to the crematorium | Both leads are each other's first | Second male lead takes the girl | Long-planned devotion | Fighting tooth and nail for her | Hidden darkness beneath a gentle facade | Not a strong-female-lead story | Heroine grows over time | Stealing someone else's love
Everyone in Beijing's elite circles knows the Ye family's well-behaved daughter, Ye Nansheng, spent seven years chasing the Pei family's heir, Pei Tingxing. She started as a naive fifteen-year-old and kept at it until she was twenty-two, exhausted and disillusioned.
Pei Tingxing treated her as his for the taking, taking her love for granted and squandering it. Women flocked around him, and he was certain she would never leave.
No one knew that Pei Tingxing's close friend, Mo Jingyuan, had harbored a secret love for ten years, ever since he first saw Ye Nansheng in a white dress with her hair in a ponytail when he was sixteen.
When Ye Nansheng finally had enough of being disappointed and turned to Mo Jingyuan, Pei Tingxing came to his senses and realized he had long since fallen deeply in love with her. He swallowed his pride and frantically tried to win her back, spent his entire fortune, and cut off every other romantic prospect. All he got in return was Ye Nansheng's cold distance and Mo Jingyuan jealously guarding what was his at every turn.
The chase-to-win-her-back burned down to ashes, and the two former friends became enemies.
