[Beijing's elite families] [Unhinged male lead] [Powerful partners] [A comeback in the business world] [Mutual salvation] [Both devoted to each other]
Gu Nianqing, eldest legitimate daughter of Beijing's Gu family, is offered as a pawn in a political marriage to the hypocritical young master of the Pei family.
She refuses to accept her fate.
An inspection assignment takes her south to Chaocheng, where she tears up the script Beijing has written for her with her own hands.
Everyone waits to see her make a fool of herself, until the man in Chaocheng who controls Nangang, a powerbroker no one dares to cross, tells her at a herbal tea shop, “Head out early.”
Later, his men take a knife for her, his territory is hers to command, and he calls late at night just to ask three words: “Are you hurt?”
A call from Beijing demands: “You're involved with some nobody who doesn't belong in polite society, bringing shame on the Gu family!”
Gu Nianqing glances at the man beside her, the old scar carved into his arm, and smiles. “The Gu family's reputation? I gave that up a long time ago.”
