Two-faced little white flower heroine x cold-faced, sinister, burning-hot male lead
Everyone in the martial world says Xie Yunting is cold-hearted, devoid of desire, and uninterested in women. No one knows he has a pampered young woman hidden away in the waterways of Nanjiang.
When Xie Yunting found Chu Ying, war was raging and the people of Nanjiang had been driven from their homes. Beneath a warship, an oil-paper umbrella shielded her from the rain sweeping across the sea.
The day he returned to the capital, the barefoot little girl chased him to the riverbank and tugged at his sleeve. "Brother, are the girls in the capital all better than me?"
His Adam's apple bobbed. In the end, he only rubbed the top of her head and said, "A Ying, don't be naughty."
When he brought her back to the capital at eighteen, the desire in his heart began to grow wildly. And she kept deliberately, or not so deliberately, tugging at his heartstrings.
On New Year's Eve, snow fell heavily. She knocked on his door. In the snowy night, she kissed him. He thought she had only had a nightmare, never realizing that it was a glimpse of the future granted by her special ability.
This forbidden love was hidden in the bowl of calming medicine she drank every night. No one knew who, in the dead of night, breathed unevenly as he held her and forced himself to fall asleep.
Later, he kept her close and demanded, "A Ying, weren't you the one who reached for your brother's hand first? Why are you running away?"
[Content warning]
The heroine makes the first move. The male lead appears restrained, but has long since fallen for her.
None of the characters are entirely innocent; each has their own motives.
P.S. The male lead is every bit as capable in a fight as he is gentle.
Theme: As long as you are alive, there is hope
