[Marriage First, Love Later + Unrequited Love Turns Mutual + He Chases His Wife to the Crematorium, but the Female Lead Doesn't Look Back]
{Surrendering to the Night / A Push and Pull to the Limit / Mutual Salvation / Obsessive Possessiveness}
When she was eight, her mother abandoned her outside in the middle of a heavy snowfall. Zhou Mingyuan took Xu Mei, a girl nobody wanted, home with him.
The boy in a white formal suit bent down toward her. "Will you come with me, little sis?"
From that day on, Zhou Mingyuan became her whole world.
That was until she was twenty-four and heard him say
"I only think of her as the girl next door. Of course my marriage partner should be my equal. The Xu family won't do, especially since she's only an adopted daughter."
Her long, fruitless devotion drained away every hope she had ever had for love.
She severed ties with the past and decided to spend the rest of her life alone, never touching love again.
Until late one night, amid the shifting lights and shadows, the man who seemed cold and ascetic to the world quietly cornered her in a space no bigger than a few steps.
No one knew that beneath Jiang Yichen's cool exterior lay years of restrained obsession and burning affection.
His sealed desires stirred only for her, and the feelings he'd kept buried for years finally broke through the earth.
He shed his loneliness and coldness for her, breaking every rule he had set for himself.
With a lifetime of devotion, he slowly healed every wound from her past.
At last, the girl who had never known enough love received a devotion meant for her alone.
And Mr. Jiang, who had hidden his youthful feelings, finally got his little strawberry.
