She Comes Through the Flames

[Spoiled and arrogant, until in the end there's no one left to spoil you.]

On the first day Su Zehuan left Dongcheng, Xu Anran came to see her.

The man exuded an air of refined aloofness, utterly reserved. Holding a plain umbrella, he clasped its handle with long, slender fingers, their tips faintly pink. He slowly closed his hand and spoke softly: "Are you going to Xiangyang?"

His voice was cool as fine snow, like a faint sigh, and so pleasing to the ear. After speaking, Xu Anran slowly lowered his head, his lashes drooping as he glanced at the woman before him. "Going to Xiangyang? Could Dongcheng really not keep you?"

Theme: Defying fate and changing one's destiny, child of fortune