Childhood sweethearts + seven-year age gap + lively, sweet romance + innocent, adorable sweetheart + scheming, calculating older brother
The Yu family is wiped out overnight. Only three-year-old Yu Qingtang survives.
In her innocence, she doesn’t understand what it means for a family to be wiped out. She’s simply adopted by her father’s sworn enemy, where she meets a fierce older boy.
“Brother, can you take me to find my mother?”
“Brother, why are you being mean to me?”
“Brother...”
Jiang Lin’s face turns completely dark. Ever since his father brought home this little nuisance, he feels like there’s always a pigeon cooing by his ear...
Fifteen years later, the little dumpling who used to follow him around calling him “Brother” is old enough to marry.
His mother earnestly advises her, “Tang’er, whatever you do, don’t be like your big brother. Find yourself a good match from a family on your level.”
That night, Jiang Lin pins her against the window. “Dear sister, tell your brother, who do you want to marry?”
Yu Qingtang doesn’t dare say a word. She used to think he was just mean on the outside. She never knew he was even more twisted on the inside.
Only then does she realize that when she was thirteen, the second son of the Fu family, who used to play with her, climbed a tree and broke his leg. When she was fourteen, that lecherous nephew of the Zhou family fell off his horse during a race and was so frightened that he went straight back to his hometown in Jizhou. When she was fifteen, the Wen family’s refined young master invited her to admire the flowers, then tumbled down a hillside...
Jiang Lin was never an upright man. Though talented, he was deeply calculating, and became the second-in-command of the cabinet at a very young age.
Outsiders all say he has no interest in women, or he wouldn’t have waited until he was an old man.
Only he knows that a Qingtang tree had taken root in his heart long ago.
Theme: May everyone love each other well.
