[Both leads are faithful + The ex who comes crawling back + The stand-in wakes up]
For three years, Su Nuo lived as Lu Zhi's secret shadow, believing that if she was obedient enough, she could warm his icy heart.
But when the heiress of the Bai family returned from abroad, she realized that every white dress she owned, every inch of her smile, even the necklace he had clasped around her collarbone himself, bore another woman's name.
She had been nothing but a poor imitation.
When her love burned out, Su Nuo tore up the contract, cut off the long hair he loved, and walked barefoot over shards of glass, vanishing from his world for good.
Later, that lofty, untouchable man went mad.
He traveled thousands of miles to Paris, only to see her cooking for another man, smiling like a flower.
Day after day, he waited outside the bakery she owned, anonymously sending her pastries with a card so humble it seemed to grovel in the dust: “I don't hate you.”
He had pushed away the girl whose eyes held nothing but him. By the time he looked back, she had become her own light.
This time, he was the one kneeling in the rain, tasting what it was like to be treated as though he were invisible, begging like a madman: “Nuonuo, come home with me.”
He couldn't even touch her shadow.
It's so cruel, I'm really looking forward to the male protagonist getting slapped in the face