Also known as His Sacred Mountain.
Top: Real estate CEO / beautiful but tragic / possessive and controlling / ill but not weak (older).
Receiving lead: Outdoor guide / stubborn / passionate and free / struggles but doesn't suffer in silence.
As the Chen family's illegitimate son, Chen Qi never thought someone would buy him and take him home to marry him!
This marriage would let him escape the Chen family and pay his grandmother's hospital bills.
It seemed like a fair deal, but the price was his freedom.
On Chen Qi's first day in the house, his husband, Lu Changye, confiscated his phone, forbade him from taking any more tour-group jobs, and replaced them with all kinds of lessons.
Meals, daily routine, curfew... Everything had rules, with no room for negotiation.
Chen Qi was sick of it, but soon discovered that beneath Lu Changye's cold exterior lay a fragile heart.
On a stormy night, on the roof of a shopping mall, Lu Changye leaned on his knees, trembling.
Chen Qi kindly tried to help him, but Lu Changye broke free in a panic, and they both fell into the mud.
"Do you have any idea how rude that was?" Chen Qi wiped his face. "What's wrong with you? Say something!"
"Let me stay here." Lu Changye finally spoke. "No one cares."
Out of basic human decency, Chen Qi still dragged him home.
After that, Chen Qi realized that caring about Lu Changye had its advantages, and acting obedient was even more useful.
So he stopped going against Lu Changye.
When Lu Changye asked him to take part in a project, he did an excellent job.
When Lu Changye's father threw a tantrum and tried to hit someone, Chen Qi stepped in front of them.
"Why?" Lu Changye asked, rubbing Chen Qi's injured wrist.
"Because I care about you." Chen Qi smiled, his beautiful eyes making it hard to tell if he meant it.
Later, Lu Changye did many things that surprised Chen Qi.
Chen Qi said it was a shame that his childhood things had been lost, so Lu Changye went to great lengths to find his old certificates and diaries.
Chen Qi said locally grown raspberries were sour, so Lu Changye had an incredibly sweet variety flown in.
Chen Qi woke from a nightmare, and Lu Changye actually pulled him into his arms.
Chen Qi was confused, but he never forgot his goal: save enough money and then leave with his grandmother.
But someone discovered that he was saving money.
"Was it all fake?" Before Chen Qi could explain, Lu Changye asked, "Did you sell the Patek Philippe on my desk?"
"I didn't steal it!" Chen Qi pounded on the locked door. "I'm the fake one, but what about you? Were you ever sincere with me? Did you ever trust me? Did you ever respect me?!"
That night, his grandmother was critically ill. Chen Qi jumped out the window and rushed to the hospital, injured.
His grandmother passed away. Chen Qi had no reason left to stay.
Calls flashed incessantly across his phone screen.
Chen Qi threw the phone into the trash in disgust and disappeared into the rainy night.
Chen Qi fled to Gannan and opened a small guesthouse.
It was the rainy season, and there were few tourists. A black SUV stopped outside the guesthouse.
The man approached step by step, bringing with him a chill of damp air. His shadow fell over Chen Qi.
"Come back with me, okay?"
Moonlight seeped through the night. Chen Qi was pressed against the floor-to-ceiling window.
Behind him were mountains, silent since time immemorial. In front of him was an entrancing face.
"You can go have fun with them, but come back early, okay?" Lu Changye rubbed his face against the nape of Chen Qi's neck. "The altitude here is so high, my head hurts. When I used to feel unwell, you'd always feel sorry for me. You said you cared about me, Chen Qi."
[Bonus scene]
At a banquet later, Chen Qi attended as Lu Changye's partner.
Lu, who always looked down on everyone, knelt on one knee in front of half the upper crust to tie his shoelace.
As he stood, his suit sleeve shifted, seemingly by chance.
A snow-white bandage was wrapped around his wrist, with blood soaking through it.
Chen Qi looked down. "What happened to your hand?"
Lu Changye touched Chen Qi's fingertips with his wrist. "I was delirious with fever last night. I called for you, but you didn't answer. I looked everywhere for you, then suddenly saw the fruit knife on the table."
Lu Changye tilted his head slightly, revealing a pale, beautiful smile.
"I just wanted to see how you felt back then, and whether it hurt."
"Chen Qi, now we're even, right?"
"If you tame me, then we'll need each other." - The Little Prince
Theme: If you love someone, learn how to love.
