Melodramatic rich-family drama | Rekindled love | Healing | A touch of ensemble cast
Cool, reserved young master x sweet, scheming girl
[1]
Wen Shiyu was brought to the Chi family.
Chi Suihuai gave her her name.
Even then, Wen Shiyu knew that as long as she stayed by Chi Suihuai's side, no one would bully her again.
Her duty was to protect Chi Suihuai at all costs.
*
In the humid summer, clusters of pink climbing roses bloomed beside the vine-wrapped window.
Years later, whenever Wen Shiyu tended the garden, that window would open, and Chi Suihuai would call out to her:
“Wen Shiyu.”
“Come here and hold me.”
Some said the Chi family's young master was an illegitimate child. Others said he would do anything to secure his place as heir. Some said that one day, he would be driven out.
Chi Suihuai never denied it.
His eyes always looked empty.
Wen Shiyu thought of how this was the person who had watched fireworks with her, made braided-string rings with her, and wished for her birthday, “Wen Shiyu, I hope everything goes your way.”
[2]
Wen Shiyu was the first to leave.
In the days and nights that followed, Chi Suihuai sat before the floor-to-ceiling windows of a penthouse suite, looking down at the city's dazzling nightscape.
He still couldn't sleep with the lights off.
Because there was no one left to pick him up and say in a gentle voice, “Don't be scared. I'm here to hold you.”
*
The office was abuzz. Passing colleagues were all talking about the rumored young heir.
Wen Shiyu looked up.
She looked once, just once.
Chi Suihuai in the crowd was just as he had been back then, with sharp features and such stunning good looks that it was almost unreal. Everyone knew he was already engaged, a perfect match with a marriage blessed by heaven.
Wen Shiyu smiled bitterly.
They were strangers now.
“It's just an excuse to get out of a blind date.”
Later, Chi Suihuai explained earnestly.
When Wen Shiyu said nothing, Chi Suihuai pulled her into his arms.
“Feeling wronged? Let me make it up to you.”
[Reading Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first love, happy ending
2. It really is melodramatic
3. The heroine is a sweet girl who can really fight
4. Two-year age gap
Theme: Sincerity
