Cultured, abstinent, old-school academic bottom VS bewitching, beautiful, scheming top
Everyone knows that antiques hold the years within them, but few realize that ancient objects are best at hiding people's hearts.
Xie Qin had spent half his life immersed in antiques and old books, and was known as a cool, self-possessed professor of cultural relics. He had seen millennia-old artifacts crumble and watched authenticity and forgery trade places. His passions had long since faded like smoke and dust. He kept to his rules and boundaries, believing he would spend his life with antiques, without upheaval and without a destination.
Then, at an auction of cultural relics where undercurrents ran deep, a common-looking Tibetan knife, hardly worth a fortune, sold for three million.
The buyer was Jiang Xitong.
He wielded the power of the Jiang family and belonged to the MNC's secret Special Investigations Bureau. His features were captivatingly beautiful, and his nature deep and cunning. Others thought he had bought it on a whim just to spend money and have fun. Only he knew that this ancient knife from southern Xinjiang was the key to a fate he had spent half his life seeking.
One object stirred an old dream; one glance decided the rest of their lives.
The two men, who should have remained strangers, crossed the line because of an ancient knife.
Xie Qin followed him into the mountains to trace its origins and study its history, walking along wild paths in the evening breeze. The man who had always strictly observed propriety and kept others at a distance let down his guard only beside Jiang Xitong, falling into a deep sleep with the evening breeze and another's heart as his pillow.
Their boundaries crumbled and their defenses melted, all through the quiet machinations of fate.
They had thought it was merely a chance meeting in the antiques trade, a shallow acquaintance in the mundane world. But an unexpectedly dropped matchmaking photo revealed fate's hand in full:
The stranger who had stirred no feelings in him was, in fact, the destined person waiting to meet him on a blind date.
The ancient knife from southern Xinjiang was the lure; a century-old case was the trap.
The Jiang family's hidden power, strange tales sealed away for generations, and an unresolved death from the past all came surging to the surface.
One was cultured and abstinent, coolly guarding antiques for half his life;
the other was bewitching and scheming, concealing his feelings as he laid out his plans.
Where the blade rose and fell, their fated story began.
Among countless encounters in a sea of people, only this meeting was the ancient knife finding its rightful owner, an old friend returning to his place, and every cause and consequence falling upon the two of them.
Theme: Stay true to your heart, to the stirrings of love, and to the simplest love and tenderness in the human world.
