Male lead: Poor in his early years, outwardly cool, restrained, and accomplished, but inwardly insecure, obsessive, and dark
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Female lead: The daughter of a powerful official, outwardly a stunning beauty with striking features, but inwardly childish and prone to avoidance. She is instinctively attracted to the male lead.
From that day on, Sheng Qingqing saw Gu Shichuan in a new light. Cool and restrained on the surface, once he committed to a relationship, he became obsessive, controlling, and even domineering. And she was so utterly lost in the ivory tower he had built that she was intoxicated by her instinctive attraction to him.
She was so slow to realize it that, by their eleventh year together, they ended up divorced.
After the divorce, Sheng Qingqing sometimes asked herself why, when she had managed just fine with him for the first four years, she began to resist and eventually divorced him as soon as he suggested trying for a baby. It seemed that witnessing her father's affair with his lover sixteen years earlier had quietly planted a seed of unease in her heart. It had taken root in the most private parts of her, in her youth and her marriage, all along waiting to be awakened and then erupt.
#A realistic urban romance, not mindless sweetness or angst
Theme: Even if your husband is dependable and your family is well-off, don't give up your career for marriage
