Today marks Gu Siyan’s new beginning.
From this day on, she officially changes her name to Xu Wu.
It is a tribute to the “empty” life she has lived for the past twenty-three years.
Xu Wu is not a Gu family child, and that is no secret within the Gu clan.
For those twenty-three years, she has lived cautiously, obeying her adoptive parents in everything.
But on the day she is supposed to marry Lu Yichen, her arranged match, her adoptive parents hold their biological daughter, Lin Yuwei, and weep, crying, “Yanyan, our Yanyan has come home!”
It turns out that “Gu Siyan” means they have been longing for their biological daughter, “Yanyan.”
Most humiliating of all, when the Lu family questions whether Xu Wu is really their daughter and what that means for the marriage alliance, her adoptive parents publicly tell her to take off her wedding dress.
Just then, a tall, stern figure cuts through the chaos, walking steadily toward her against the light.
It is Gu Yanxiu!
Her uncle in name, the true head of the Gu family, and the distant, cool moon she has secretly longed for over the years, yet could never reach.
He takes her away, and they go to the police station to change her name.
Standing outside the marriage registration office, Xu Wu snaps out of her daze and asks, “Uncle, shall we get our marriage license?”
As she wonders if she has acted too impulsively and crossed a line, Gu Yanxiu nods and replies, “That’s exactly what I had in mind.”
