Everyone knew that Gong Changle was Jing Qing's childhood sweetheart and fiancée, betrothed to him by the two families.
But when an intimate photo leaked, she instantly became a laughingstock.
"Don't get above yourself." Jing Qing's tone was icy, each word striking at her heart. "If it weren't for the Jing family's marriage alliance, do you think the Liang family could have survived until today?"
Gong Changle saw no point in arguing. She simply seized the irrefutable evidence that the Jing family had been devouring the Liang family and took it to her maternal grandmother.
She thought she could finally escape the fate of an arranged marriage, never knowing that one alliance with the Jing family would end only for another with the Si family to begin.
The young master of the Si family, rumored to be low-key and reserved, had never shown his face since their engagement was arranged. Yet he offered her the best projects, his finest people, and all the resources she could dream of. He helped her settle the Jing family's old debts and transformed her from a caged bird in the Liang family into the one in command.
His utterly unreserved protection was so moving that she nearly lost herself in it.
But the scorching summer of three years ago was forever etched in Gong Changle's heart. The man who was like a gentle breeze and a bright moon, the man she had pursued with all her heart, the man who could do nothing about her advances yet held her in his arms with a tender smile: when he appeared before her again, how could she possibly look away?
An old love returned, feelings from the past surged anew, and reason and passion wrestled with each other again and again.
She gritted her teeth, pulled away, and fled without mercy, thinking she had put an end to it all.
But Pei Qiyan appeared before her once more, this time under an entirely new identity.
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