[Sweet, well-behaved girl vs. playboy who turns over a new leaf]
Nie Yutang likes a scumbag. Ever since she met him, she's watched the “girlfriends” around him change one after another. Later, the two of them become blind-date candidates.
Liang Shaoting, a powerful playboy prince of Beijing's elite circle, lives by the motto “eat, drink, and be merry.” He has no real feelings for anyone; he might as well have given his heart to the dogs. At their first meeting, he tells her politely, “I won't get married.”
Nie Yutang doesn't go after him like other women just because she likes him. She simply likes him; she's never imagined the two of them together. Unassuming and easygoing, she never fights or competes, and has a lady's manners ingrained in her. Yet the man is instantly captivated by her looks.
Liang Shaoting finds her bland and boring, but somehow she can always pique his interest. He doesn't like how gentle and ladylike she is, yet every glance and smile leaves him unable to resist her.
They keep things ambiguous for a long time. It seems no other woman can come close to Liang Shaoting anymore. Nie Yutang becomes the only woman he makes exception after exception for, and the only one he publicly acknowledges as his girlfriend.
After they get together, Liang Shaoting leaves his womanizing ways behind and becomes completely devoted to her. They are so loving that everyone envies them. Just when everyone thinks they are about to get engaged, Nie Yutang applies to become a foreign war correspondent and leaves in the middle of the night on the eve of their engagement.
Liang Shaoting flies again and again to war-torn lands, keeping that gentle figure in his sight.
Years later, Liang Shaoting is interviewed and asked about his happy marriage.
He says, “My wife's tenderness is what moves me most. In the years without her, I couldn't sleep at night.”
