[Powerful, high-ranking daddy X resilient, gentle, beautiful sweetheart]
Even many years later, Wen Zhixi still remembers the first time she met Huo Zhaoshen.
At a banquet filled with high society, he was the center of attention, the one and only focus. Standing tall among the crowd, he was composed and distinguished.
The Wen family took her over to greet him. As the adopted daughter known for her beauty and gentleness, she felt inexplicably inferior beneath his deep, cool black eyes.
“Hello, Mr. Huo.” Even her voice sounded soft and airy, not quite proper.
The man lowered his gaze casually and replied with distant politeness, “Miss Wen.”
Later, as the banquet came to an end, he left her with one remark: “You should smile more.”
Wen Zhixi froze for a moment, then nodded and thanked him. “I will. Thank you.”
That was all there was between them.
At the time, she had no idea that their paths would become so entangled.
Later, an accident brought about by someone's careful scheming left her desperate, confused, and overcome by waves of heat and trembling.
Remembering his words, “You should smile more,” she summoned her courage and clutched his cold, immaculate sleeve. With tears in her eyes, she begged him, half crying and half smiling:
“Mr. Huo, please save me.”
That night, he kept her with him until morning.
*
Everyone said the Wen family's adopted daughter had struck it lucky by winning Huo Zhaoshen.
Even if she had schemed her way into the Huo family, she was nothing more than a cold, insignificant ornament.
Even Wen Zhixi herself believed it.
But after they married, this distant and dignified man treated her with endless patience. Aside from being overwhelming in the bedroom, he practically carried her in the palm of his hand.
“Now that you're my wife, I'll naturally fulfill my responsibilities,” Huo Zhaoshen told her.
On her twenty-third birthday, dazzling fireworks woke the dark sky to life, making it look like a dream.
Wen Zhixi gazed at him with clear eyes and asked sweetly, “Mr. Huo, I really don't know how to repay you.”
Huo Zhaoshen took her hand and gently kissed it. His cool, stern expression softened. “Repaying me is simple.”
“Please love me.”
“I don't want much. Just a little is enough.”
At first, it was only a little compassion.
He hoped those clear, gentle eyes, like a deer's, could hold a little more joy.
When did he fall so deeply in love with her?
*
[He loves her like a gardener tending a flower. All he wants is to help this delicate bloom, on the verge of withering, grow radiant and bright.]
[Reader's Guide]
1. Both leads are each other's first and only, and remain faithful.
2. A sweet romance that starts with marriage and grows into love, with an eight-year age gap: 22 x 30, and a size difference.
3. The male lead is head over heels for her. He saves her, and the heroine is an innocent, beautiful little white flower with a bit of a scheming streak, but not much. At heart, she's a good girl, and the male lead fiercely takes her side and protects his wife.
[Written on March 15, 2026]
Theme: Face life with courage.
