Blazing Green

Ruan Qing gave Song Yuming the best years of her youth and her most passionate love. When she finally came to her senses, she realized she was nothing but a clown in the eyes of the Song family and the rest of the world, a gold-digger dreaming of marrying into a powerful family and becoming a phoenix.

If that's what they thought of her, then she might as well go all in.

At the New Year banquet, she dazzled everyone with a performance of Phoenix Seeks Its Mate. Surrounded by flowers, she smiled at Gu Henian, the business tycoon who had just returned from abroad. "Mr. Gu, would you care to dance with me?"

Gu Henian took her hand with cool composure. "It would be my honor."

A week later, she was Gu Henian's girlfriend, and Song Yuming's soon-to-be aunt by marriage.

Gu Henian was aloof and cold. Although the entertainment industry was full of beautiful women, not one had caught his eye. When word got out that he was engaged to the adopted daughter-in-law the Song family had broken off their engagement with, everyone was stunned. They all assumed he was just playing around and that the couple would split within six months.

Ruan Qing thought so too.

Until Gu Henian took her to the civil affairs bureau. Until the news of their marriage certificate exploded across the trending lists.

"Mr. Gu, thank you for helping me, but there's no need to take the act so far. I never really coveted the title of Mrs. Gu."

"I wasn't acting. I schemed for the title of Mr. Ruan Qing."

There's a kind of tea leaf that looks plain and unremarkable when first picked. But after eighty-one rounds of roasting and stir-frying, its green color deepens and brightens, becoming a top-grade tea whose flavor lingers in your memory.

What Gu Henian wanted was that brilliant shade of green.

No one knew how long he had been longing for it. Whenever he heard the name Ruan Qing, the brand in his heart seared him all over again.

First a university student at an opera academy, then a rising film and TV star vs. first a rebellious youth, then a business tycoon

Theme: Love is not just about loving each other. It's also about acceptance, encouragement, and growing together