Everyone around Jiang Huaiyan knew he had a white moonlight hidden deep in his heart, but no one dared bring it up in front of him.
They say his white moonlight was beautiful, with fair skin, red lips, and sparkling eyes. One gentle smile from her was enough to make the once-unattainable Young Master Jiang fall completely for her.
Later, when he was at his most vulnerable and broken, his white moonlight abandoned him and left without looking back.
From then on, Jiang Huaiyan became cold and heartless, shutting himself away completely. His life held nothing but work.
Then one day, Yu Qiaoqiao suddenly appeared in his world.
She and his white moonlight had completely different faces, yet Jiang Huaiyan kept seeing the white moonlight's shadow in Yu Qiaoqiao.
He kept Yu Qiaoqiao by his side, originally out of an inexplicable desire for revenge. But in the end, he was the one who suffered.
Yu Qiaoqiao was a minor internet celebrity, barely known in her field. Just as her career hit rock bottom, good fortune suddenly fell into her lap. A photo of her and Jiang Huaiyan, of the Jiang Sheng Group, was posted online, inviting people to speculate about what they saw. Before long, their ship became a sensation.
For the sake of her career, Yu Qiaoqiao agreed to be Jiang Huaiyan's "contract girlfriend," diligently playing two different roles in public and in private.
In front of the cameras, Yu Qiaoqiao would take the arm of the handsome, aloof, and refined man, smiling sweetly and looking blissfully happy.
Away from the cameras, Jiang Huaiyan treated her with the utmost indifference. He rarely even gave her a kind look, let alone a smile.
Yu Qiaoqiao didn't care. Their relationship was just a mutual exchange of benefits. Only a fool would take it seriously.
Some time later, people dug up the story that Jiang Huaiyan had a white moonlight he couldn't talk about.
He remained tight-lipped and didn't offer a single word of explanation.
His jealous peers and haters began to go wild.
"So she's just a pitiful stand-in after all, always in danger of getting dumped. How tragic."
"She climbed to success on Jiang Sheng's resources. The higher you climb, the harder you fall."
"Tsk, tsk. When his white moonlight comes back, she'll be sent packing in disgrace."
Even Yu Qiaoqiao's manager couldn't stand it anymore. "Qiaoqiao, what's going on with President Jiang? What is all this about a white moonlight he can't have, and a lowly stand-in? What kind of nonsense is this?"
The defiant bravado Yu Qiaoqiao had shown earlier that day was gone. She lowered her eyes and murmured to herself, "Yeah, he really does still love her. Why does he still love her...?"
She remembered a night not long ago when a drunken Jiang Huaiyan had held her and mumbled incoherently, "Ranran, where did you go...? Ranran, please come back..."
Ranran was the name of the white moonlight everyone talked about.
Yu Qiaoqiao's eyes instantly reddened.
Because it had been a long time since he last called her that...
Later, unable to remain trapped in this complicated relationship, Yu Qiaoqiao decided to leave.
But Jiang Huaiyan stopped her.
As he gazed at the sleeping woman on the bed, his eyes filled with tenderness, restrained and repressed.
She had finally come back after all this time. He wouldn't let her go so easily again.
She was the white moonlight he had once failed to recognize.
She was also the cinnabar mole in his heart he hardly dared to touch.
Even knowing he might be hurt again, he would risk everything to hold her tight.
Theme: Saving each other
