Mutual pining | Reunited after years apart
Rebellious, unruly, and aloof × Gentle, sensitive, pure and immaculate
1.
At sixteen, Chu Qiu Ci first caught a glimpse of Qi Jiazhi at a villa halfway up a mountain, during her family's year-end gathering.
She hated all the polite chatter in the room, so she slipped outside to watch the snow settle over the green mountains.
A tall figure suddenly came into view.
Beneath the endless snow, the young man in a black outdoor jacket stood out brilliantly. He wore only light clothing, his profile sharply defined. Snow drifted onto his shoulders, lending him an air of distant solitude.
As lonely and cold as the snow itself, he stirred the girl's heart for the first time, taking her completely by surprise.
It felt as though a little deer were trapped in her chest, its heart pounding wildly.
Years later, when she heard news of him again...
He had won the Best Actor award at the Golden Rooster Awards. She sat in the audience as the man onstage stood in a black suit, his features even colder and more imposing than before, more dazzling, and further beyond her reach.
At his side was Yu Zining, a popular rising star in the industry, radiant and beautiful, with a bewitching figure.
They made a perfect pair.
After one glance, she looked away.
2.
Chu Qiu Ci had devoted her life to preserving the guqin tradition. After a serious illness at fourteen, she rarely spoke in private and became exceptionally aloof.
At the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, the organizers invited this guqin inheritor from the prestigious Yunyang family to perform onstage.
She wore a simple, pale blue-green dress, with a dot of vermilion between her brows. Her features were captivating, yet her expression was calm as water. Like moonlight in a mountain stream, like plum blossoms beneath the snow, she possessed an ethereal grace that outshone even the other actresses.
The applause rang out without end. Qi Jiazhi remained expressionless as he toyed with the red cord in his hand.
Comments on the livestream:
Viewer 1: Oh my god, my husband really is so pure and uninterested in romance, sob!
Viewer 2: What does that red cord mean? Why does my husband love fiddling with it so much?!
Viewer 3:!!! I want to transmigrate into that red cord!
No one knew that the red cord was something he had once taken from Chu Qiu Ci's guqin case.
It held all the longing he had poured into it, inch by inch.
Later, through countless nights, vermilion replaced the red cord. What he loved most was the vermilion mark between her brows.
Strings-
"Whenever I pluck the strings, his image appears in my mind."
"I try not to think of him, but I can't forget." - Jiang Chengzi
Theme: Love takes skill, too.
