[Reborn in the late Qing Dynasty + devoted 1v1 romance + cross-sea pursuit of his wife + affectionate puppy-like hero with a surprising contrast + secret forbidden love]
Shen Shu is reborn in the late Qing Dynasty with memories of the twenty-first century. To escape an arranged marriage, she travels to Britain to study.
They meet in the foggy capital, and she catches the eye of Edwin, a golden-haired nobleman. He is a cool, abstinent second son of an earl in public, but with her alone he is clingy, affectionate, and sweetly submissive.
They fall in love and live together for a year in Britain. He secretly applies for a transfer to Shanghai, having already planned a future with her in it.
But when her grandmother becomes gravely ill, she hastily ends things and returns home alone, believing the mountains and seas between them will keep them apart. Instead, he charters a ship, empties their little London home, recreates it in a Western-style house, and follows her to Shanghai.
From then on, Shanghai sees her two sides: by day, she is the dignified, aloof eldest daughter of the Shen family, keeping Westerners at a distance; by night, she sneaks out over the wall to hide away her English puppy of a man.
