Yu Rui has a gentle, refined, self-controlled, and impeccably mannered fiance, Xu Boyue. Their marriage is a union between their families.
Whenever Yu Rui meets people in Xu Boyue's circle, they always warn her that he has a first love, and she's just her substitute. Once his first love comes back, she'll be kicked to the curb.
Yu Rui doesn't take it seriously. She's happy to have it easy and not have to work at romance. Being a substitute is great!
One day, Xu Boyue's first love is standing before him, sobbing prettily and looking delicate. Yu Rui is listening in from behind a corner, feeling embarrassed. She was never that delicate. Just as she's imagining a scene where her fiance gets back together with his first love and she's kicked out of the Xu family, the usually gentle Xu Boyue lets out a cold, mocking laugh. "Miss Zhong, you've got the wrong idea. What part of you is like her?"
Yu Rui: Whoa??? So even the first love is a substitute.
Later, Yu Rui discovers that the so-called first love and substitute were all lies, and she's fallen right into his gentle trap.
It turns out that the first love and substitute were a sham. What was real was that he'd been plotting to win her over all along.
A laid-back female graduate student who loves showering people with praise and is devoted to archaeological research x a gentle, cunning old fox
Four-year age gap
/He has a secret crush on her, and she falls into his gentle trap
/An old fox who can wait and keep up a front!
/Everything serves the plot. There'll be a little archaeology-related knowledge, so don't take it too seriously!
/Both are each other's first love!
Theme: Be brave and sincere in love.
