Lou Xinyue was the long-lost daughter brought back into the Lou family.
She thought her hard times were finally over, only to be sent straight to the Shen family to fulfill the engagement meant for the fake heiress.
Her fiancé, Shen Juao, was a notorious playboy in their social circle. The two lived under the same roof at the Shen residence for three months, but barely saw each other.
On the day of their engagement banquet, he was fooling around with a model and stood her up.
Everyone was waiting to see Lou Xinyue make a fool of herself.
Instead, she pointed to the powerful man who had just arrived, late but imposing:
The Shen family's revered Third Uncle, Shen Checi, a jade-faced schemer who held the whole city of Shanghai in the palm of his hand.
"If I'm being made to marry into the Shen family, what does it matter whom I marry? I want to marry him."
Shen Checi stopped in his tracks. Everyone held their breath, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire.
But the man, who had always kept his distance from women, showed no displeasure. In a low voice, he said each word clearly: "If you marry me, I'll marry you."
No one knew.
On the stormy night before the engagement banquet, the man had stood with a black umbrella, looking like a demon from hell as he gazed down at her and asked, "You don't want to marry him, and I don't want to marry anyone. How about we just get married?"
Later, Lou Xinyue accidentally slept with Shen Checi and ran away in fear when she woke up.
It was another rainy night. The man stood there with a gentle expression, dew from the night on his clothes, and asked nonchalantly, "You slept with me and now you want to run?"
He cornered her step by step. "Who gave you the nerve?"
Bonus Scene:
Everyone had assumed that Shen Checi married Lou Xinyue because Shen Juao had made a mistake and he wanted to make amends on behalf of the Shen family.
Lou Xinyue had simply stumbled into marrying up. Surely the higher she climbed, the harder she would fall.
Until, not long afterward,
someone saw an artificial full moon slowly rise over Shanghai on a snowy winter night, lighting up the entire dark sky.
When asked about it, Shen Checi gave a soft laugh, a rare tenderness in his eyes. "My wife said she wanted a bright moon that would never set."
So he built her an underground castle and made her a moon with his own hands.
Whether it was night or day, the moon would always shine in his castle and in his heart.
Theme: I will protect you and take on the world for you
