In the autumn of Star Era 307, Tang Chuyu, a top-tier financial executive, is forced to travel to a shadowy club on the outskirts of the city to handle a gray-market funding project and meet with the underground boss Yu You. Twenty years later, fate brings them together again.
Tang Chuyu finally makes up his mind to stop running away. He launches a private investigation, determined to uncover every truth that has been buried.
The truth is on the verge of coming out. After twenty years of love, hatred, and agonizing entanglement, the two reach their breaking point. They finally lay down their opposition, leaving only mutual concern and an unbreakable bond.
They reconcile and let go of their obsessions.
Together, they settle the score for all of Tang Huang's wrongdoing, expose his hunger for power and the crimes he committed back then, and make the instigator face the consequences. They bring the twenty-year tragedy to a close and eliminate every lingering threat.
Bound by their identities for life: one lives someone else's life to atone, while the other wanders after losing his own. Their lives were swapped for twenty years, so their love has borne the heavy burden of fate from the very beginning.
The inexplicable attraction and familiarity they felt at their first meeting reflect their childhood bond and the way their destinies are written into their genes.
Theme: Tang Chuyu retrieves all the sealed files, witness testimonies, and falsified records, reconstructing the kidnapping, arson, identity swap, and manufactured deception from twenty years ago in full. He learns the truth once and for all: he was originally You Chang, chosen as a substitute and used as a tool; Yu You was the real young master of the Tang family, abandoned by his biological father and robbed by fate of half his life. The two completely break through the divide between the clouds and the mire, shedding the bonds of guilt and salvation until only pure, equal, mutual love remains. They cast aside the constraints of social class, identity, and convention, and hold a simple, intimate wedding that belongs only to them, formally pledging themselves to one another as lovers, not as the guilty and the one who saves them. 3. Fated to match, destined to oppose: Their souls are 99.9% compatible. They were made for each other, yet a human-made deception kept them apart for twenty years. They were drawn to each other from their first meeting, and from the moment they fell in love, they felt they owed each other. 1. Tang Chuyu's claustrophobia and nightmares of the fire at the beginning correspond to the trauma he suffered in the fire when he was four years old. 6. Yu You's vague fixation on the character "You" corresponds to the protagonist's original name, You Chang, foreshadowing the truth of his identity. The flames of the past have gone out, and every scar has become a medal. From now on, the clouds and mire will embrace, and cedar will remain with gardenia. After a lifetime of storms, at last they will find peace year after year.