| Two strong leads, mutually dominant (slight younger-woman tilt) | Easygoing hustler x workaholic heiress |
Beloved border-region gambling expert in jade, Lu Yu x cold-faced, showy chief auctioneer Tang Fei
Tang Fei was the heiress to a domestic auction group. Though she had always had a sharp eye, she misjudged a lot at last week's auction.
Not only did her scheming second uncle mock her, she nearly lost her position as business director.
To trace the supply chain for counterfeit jade, she and her assistant traveled to a small city on the China-Myanmar border to find someone named "Lu Yu."
Lu Yu was known along the China-Myanmar border as the "jade-seeing ghost eye." Burmese merchants from all over were desperate to hire her, but none had succeeded.
During the day, she hid in the village, playing in the mud with the children who had been left behind. At night, she appeared at the jade market in Rui City to take part in gambling games.
Who would have thought that tonight a strange woman would keep blocking her path to fortune, outbidding her every time? And to make matters worse, a ring of unfamiliar faces surrounded her. Just as she tried to bolt, someone grabbed her.
With the evidence stacked against her, Lu Yu had no choice but to admit defeat. To accompany Miss Tang in tracing the source of the counterfeits, she swallowed her pride and kept her distance at every turn, hoping to finish the job and leave.
No one expected that the little gambler from the streets of Rui City and the heiress whose every strand of hair screamed "elite" would find their parallel lives intertwining in the humid bamboo houses of this border town.
When the source had been traced and it was time to part ways, Tang Fei turned her back on the irreverent girl and slowly straightened her rumpled, tantalizingly disheveled shirt. "Come back to Haicheng with me. How about I offer you... me?"
Theme: Love and freedom are what the heart yearns for.
