The State of Light and Shadow (the First State), where the fortunes of the powerful families have suddenly shifted. Huo Guan Chi, the head of Qing He, died suddenly of illness. Lin Qing Yan, his fiancée, legally became the sole heir to his immense estate. Yet no one could have imagined that this woman, who now held staggering wealth in her hands, would donate every last bit of her inheritance to charity, then turn around and hand control of Qing He to her younger brother, Lin Wu Chuan.
At Huo Guan Chi's funeral, Lin Qing Yan, her face veiled in black, remained calm and composed. But in the crowd, she came face-to-face with a figure both familiar and strange: Lu Jing Shen, Huo Guan Chi's sworn enemy and the head of You Bei. The man who had spent years battling Qing He was also her ex-boyfriend, the one she had fallen in love with for half a year under the false name "Ren Qing" before vanishing without a word. He was also the "older brother" she had found in the Lu family's powerful business clan in S State after her parents died in a car accident and her sister, Lin Wei Yin, perished in a fire.
The two families had been close for generations. An accident took Lin Qing Yan's parents and sister, leaving her alone to inherit the family business empire. After taking care of all the arrangements, she handed her burdens to her younger brother and went to S State to seek refuge with the Lu family. There, she formed an unbreakable bond with Lu Jing Shen.
For Lu Jing Shen, Lin Qing Yan's arrival had been an accident. His mother brought home a young woman named "Ren Qing" and asked him to look after her. After a year of living side by side, feelings quietly blossomed. He worked up the courage to confess, and to his surprise, she said yes. But their passionate love lasted only half a year before it came to an abrupt end: Ren Qing disappeared without a word, as if she had vanished from the world.
He spent two or three years searching for her to no avail, only to meet again the woman engraved in his heart at his sworn enemy's funeral. Her real name, it turned out, was Lin Qing Yan. She was Huo Guan Chi's formally betrothed fiancée, a young woman who held the power of a business empire in her hands.
A secret love from the past collides with the barriers of an old feud. The reunion of two heirs to powerful families is entangled with old grievances and unsolved mysteries. Why did she approach him under an assumed name? And why did she suddenly disappear? Can this love, born of concealment and undone by missed chances, find a chance to survive amid the maelstrom of rivalry between powerful families?
Theme: Love
