The Yan family is on the verge of bankruptcy, and Yan Yuning accepts her family's arrangement to become engaged to Li Zecen, the young master of the Li family.
With the wedding drawing near, photos emerge of Li Zecen kissing a popular actress on the street.
The Yan family comes to break off the engagement. As they discuss the matter, a man with a stern face and an imposing presence walks in.
The old master of the Li family has an idea. Pointing at the man who just entered, he says to the mother and daughter of the Yan family, "We have another good-for-nothing in the family. How about..."
Li Jingfan, who has just walked in: "..."
Looking at that impassive face, Li Zecen, convinced he has dragged his uncle into this, stammers, "S-Seventh Uncle!"
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Everyone in Ningcheng thinks the marriage between the Yan family's heiress and the Li family's Seventh Master is just a shotgun wedding: one is marrying against her will for money, while the other is too lazy to make another excuse to his family, so he closes his eyes and agrees. Even Yan Yuning thinks so.
On the wedding day, the younger members of the Yan family line up to offer the couple a toast.
Li Zecen stands before Yan Yuning with a wineglass in hand, his face downcast and his words faltering. "Yu... Yuning!"
Li Jingfan snaps, "Mind your manners. She's your Seventh Aunt!"
After the wedding, Yan Yuning is prepared to treat him with mutual respect and keep out of each other's way. But, unexpectedly, she falls for him again and again...
As their relationship grows more intimate, Li Zecen, full of regret and resentment, corners Yan Yuning at a party one day, emboldened by drink. "Back then, Seventh Uncle set you up to, "
Before he can finish, Li Jingfan approaches them in a sharp suit, wineglass in hand. A knowing smile plays on his lips as he gives Li Zecen a quiet warning with his eyes. "What are you talking about with your Seventh Aunt?"
"..." Li Zecen's temple twitches. In the end, he can only watch helplessly as his cold, domineering Seventh Uncle coaxes her away.
Later, after Yan Yuning presses him again and again, Li Jingfan admits to his "open scheme."
Afraid she'll get angry, he tilts his head and speaks in a low, gentle voice, with a hint of wounded innocence. "Didn't you say you wanted to marry me when you were little, Ningning? Don't you remember?"
Then he draws her gently into his arms and brushes a kiss against her lips. His eyes are as sly as a fox's, and his tone is triumphant as he asks, feigning ignorance, "You don't like me?"
Pure-hearted little bunny VS sultry old fox
Reunion after a long separation, with a nine-year age gap;
The heroine was five when she first met the hero, but forgot him as she grew up;
The hero plots carefully, and his secret love comes true; the heroine falls in love after marriage;
SC, HE
Theme: Building socialism together.
