[One-on-one ending / Male lead takes the lead / Second male lead's groveling redemption / Secret love comes true / Sweet and angsty / Not a strong female lead / Healing / Slow-burn and bittersweet / Everyday life]
[Sensitive, insecure, resilient sweetheart x Aloof, protective, coaxing CEO x Brooding, selfish, controlling childhood friend]
Shen Yumian is deaf in her left ear. It was the price she paid for risking her life to save her fiancé when she was eighteen. She obediently honored their engagement, even putting away her paintbrush for his sake.
Three years ago, a fortune-teller declared that she and her fiancé were ill-matched by birth. For his safety, she dutifully agreed to a three-year separation.
On her birthday, the night their three-year agreement expired, her fiancé once again left her behind to save the daughter of the person who had saved his life.
Heartbroken, she let her best friend take her to a nightclub, where she mistook Fu Linyuan, who had secretly loved her for ten years, for a male escort.
In a drunken haze, she threw herself into his arms and demanded a kiss, shattering the restraint the business tycoon had maintained for years.
The morning after, she tried to run, but he gently tucked the loose hair behind her left ear.
"It looks lovely when you show it. Like a little fairy who wandered down from heaven."
No one knew that, three years ago, she had nearly drowned while saving Ji Chengzhou, and that it was Fu Linyuan who had dragged her back from death's door.
No one knew that he had built several top-tier hospitals to cure her ear, and kept an art studio in his mansion, waiting for her to pick up her paintbrush again.
Ji Chengzhou was certain she had no one to rely on and would never get away.
Fu Linyuan, meanwhile, stubbornly waited for her to turn around and see him.
By the time Ji Chengzhou finally realized what he had lost and began pursuing her, he discovered that the girl he thought would never leave had already picked up her paintbrush and was standing by someone else's side.