To curry favor with a wealthy family, the Lin family dresses up their illegitimate son, Lin Qingye, as a “gift” and sends him to Lu Chenzhou, the powerful head of the Lu family. Lin Qingye is delicate and ethereal, with a beauty mark beneath the corner of his eye. He looks just like Song Qingci, Lu Chenzhou’s first love from his youth. A contract makes him a stand-in.
But no one knows that beneath his gentle, obedient exterior, Lin Qingye is clear-headed and decisive. By day, he plays the role of a docile canary; by night, he secretly restores antiques in a hidden room at the Lu residence. They are his only refuge. Even Lu Chenzhou, famed for his ruthless decisiveness, gradually finds his possessive instincts spiraling out of control because of this “stand-in.” He tests him, teases him, and torments him, yet whenever Lin Qingye tries to retreat, he pulls him back into his arms.
When Song Qingci returns from abroad, a misunderstanding blows everything apart. Lin Qingye leaves a letter saying, “I’m done acting,” and disappears without hesitation. Lu Chenzhou searches for him like a madman, only to uncover the bloody truth among the old keepsakes: the boy who saved his life back then was never Song Qingci. It was Lin Qingye.
He has loved only Lin Qingye from beginning to end.
Now the man he hurt so deeply has gone to an ancient town in Yunnan, quietly repairing broken porcelain and putting himself back together. Lu Chenzhou casts aside all his pride and follows him, dropping to one knee on the flagstones. “Teach me how to love you.”
The stand-in becomes the one and only; the first love turns out to have been me all along; now he has to win his wife back. When the unhinged tycoon finally learns how to love, he realizes that the heart he once shattered must be pieced back together, shard by shard, over the rest of his life.
