Lately, Chu Lingzhu has been having some indescribable dreams.
In them, a beautiful stranger wraps an arm around her shoulders, wantonly kissing her skin with vermilion lips as he murmurs her name.
His lovely brows and eyes are full of tender affection, tinged with crimson.
Chu Lingzhu: "..."
After a brief silence, Chu Lingzhu said "yes" to temptation.
And so, everything that happened in her dreams became a secret shared between her and the stranger.
.
She knows nothing of the young man's origins or identity, not even his name.
Every night, he suddenly appears and affectionately calls her "Zhu Zhu." They linger together until dawn, when he gets up and quietly leaves her dream.
He never overstays his welcome.
One day, Chu Lingzhu finally decides to ask his name.
The young man lowers his eyes. "What if I'm someone you hate?"
Chu Lingzhu's face fills with disgust. "You mean Wei Chongji? No way. That'd be so gross."
She thinks he's just making a harmless joke.
But she doesn't notice how his face turns deathly pale the instant she says those words.
After that night, he never appears again.
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Wei Chongji, Chu Lingzhu's fellow disciple from the same lineage, is old-fashioned, stern, and humorless. He is the person she hates most in the world.
She avoids him at every turn and won't even spare him a glance. Wei Chongji is equally aware of his place: unless absolutely necessary, he won't say a word to her.
Though they are fellow disciples, they treat each other with more indifference than they would an enemy.
Chu Lingzhu is perfectly content with their mutual avoidance.
That is, until one day, she accidentally tears Wei Chongji's clothes.
His tattered robes barely conceal the delicate corner of a dragonfly tattoo at his waist.
Chu Lingzhu knows that tattoo.
Because she was the one who had tattooed it onto her gentle lover herself.
Theme: Everyone can find their own happiness.
