[Composed and calm, but hopeless at love: noble family's elder sister vs. ambitious and cunning younger man, a flirt who is an expert at disguising his feelings]
Yu Shuang is shallow. A face and a few words were enough to make her fall for someone.
She dislikes smooth talkers, but if it's Chu Mian...
She dislikes frivolous playboys, but if...
She dislikes idle layabouts, but...
Then it's all right.
After all, in a marriage she had no say in, being able to face a face she liked was already enough.
But people are greedy.
At first, she only liked Chu Mian's face. Later, she liked how he treated her. Then she came to like not just Chu Mian as a person, but also wanted his absolute loyalty and trust.
Unfortunately, neither of them ever had loyalty or trust to give.
Suspicion and testing each other were what they were best at.
Chu Mian's life was long, and the thing he persisted in most was pursuing Yu Shuang.
During all those years when Yu Shuang had no idea, he went from loving her to resenting her, then back to loving her. In the end, every single one of his feelings came from the same person.
After ten years of secret love, he finally confessed and earned Yu Shuang's first glance back. It was everything he had yearned for through countless sleepless nights, the endless longing he had buried in his heart. He had been immersed in this relationship for so long, so very long, that he forgot Yu Shuang was a loyal minister.
And he was a traitorous rebel.
A story about a loyal minister who isn't quite so loyal and a traitorous rebel who isn't quite so rebellious, about a person with no principles and another with even fewer principles finding their way to each other.
"I really do like you, but it's also true that I used you."
"Mm. Same here."
