But the Evening Wind Blows

Completed and locked on August 3, 2025

Gentle, patient, and gradually ruthless beauty of a heroine x aloof, cold, obsessive hero who doesn't realize he's in love

Synopsis: Both are each other's first, and both are pure

Fair, gentle, kind, and elegant, with clear, pure black eyes like glass that hold tiny flecks of starlight, and a smile as radiant and vivid as the morning sun: that is Yin Shuang before she turns eighteen.

Yin Shuang is a true beauty. Otherwise, when her adoptive father took her away from the hell of a family that favored sons at the age of twelve, the jealous villagers wouldn't have spread the scandalous rumor that she was being kept by a rich man.

But Yin Shuang perseveres. She knows her strengths: she's not only beautiful, but also has remarkable talent in many fields.

Taking advantage of her entry into a wealthy family, Yin Shuang studies piano, painting, languages, and anything else she can, arming herself with every skill.

Over those six years, even without socializing in high society, Yin Shuang becomes someone every peer in that circle considers an intimidating presence.

On the day her college entrance exams end, just before the Yin family suddenly throws her out, Yin Shuang never expects that after several years of stability, she'll fall into the abyss again.

She doesn't know that Zhuang Lan, the eldest daughter of the Zhuang family, has been deeply jealous of her ever since she entered high society, to the point of developing an obsession no medicine can cure.

She doesn't know that Qi Zhan, the eldest young master of the Qi family, has hated her from the start, attacking and humiliating her with the unrestrained hostility of a wolf lurking in the dark.

And she has no idea that Bei Qingchi, whom she's always thought of as a favored son of high society, a peerless gentleman and an untouchable flower on a high peak, also harbors an unexpected loathing for her. In that wager over romance, he personally joined in, becoming the bait used to lure her in.

After entering university, Yin Shuang loses her shell of self-protection once again when her adoptive father abandons her for reasons she can't understand. Bullied and framed by someone who was her classmate in high school and is now her university classmate, she becomes the villain everyone denounces for supposedly driving the top student in her class to suicide before the college entrance exams. The rumor that she is being kept by a rich man once again closes in around her.

Unexpectedly, Bei Qingchi repeatedly comes to her rescue. Yin Shuang grows anxious and confused, only belatedly realizing what it means to fall for someone.

She's fallen in love with Bei Qingchi, the aloof, cool, handsome, and sharp-featured campus heartthrob of A University.

Only after being left emotionally and physically shattered does Yin Shuang finally realize that this baseless secret love was the piece of meat she herself handed to the hunters watching her, the easiest way for them to toy with their prey.

Theme: Girls should be independent and strong!