[An adorable, infuriating pampered young lady × a rough, cold man who always goes soft around her]
After her mother dies and her stepmother moves in, Su Yue's father, who once doted on her, changes overnight. He turns around and tries to marry her off to a twice-married man in exchange for a better future.
Having grown up spoiled, Su Yue can't swallow her anger. After turning the house upside down, she boards a green train in the middle of the night, planning to go complain to her uncle.
After two days and a night on the train, she arrives to find out that her uncle and his whole family have been sent away to the countryside.
Her home is no longer a home, her travel permit has only a month left, and she hasn't been able to contact her brother for over two years. Su Yue is truly in a desperate situation.
Just as she runs out of options, a middle-aged man who says he used to be her uncle's orderly recognizes her. After they confirm each other's identities, he takes Su Yue to see her uncle, who entrusts her to this former subordinate, the only person he can trust right now.
And so Su Yue moves in with the Duan family and meets Duan Yu, a young man utterly different from her in every way.
Su Yue dislikes Duan Yu: his roughness, his wildness, his coldness, and especially the brazen way he looks at her.
At first, Duan Yu also dislikes this pampered young lady who has dropped out of the sky. But at his father's orders, he has no choice but to do everything he can to look after this delicate flower, so obviously unsuited to the soil of Duan Family Village.
Duan Yu thinks that one day he'll leave home because of Su Yue. He doesn't expect that he will leave, but only because he can't bear to see her suffer or lower her head.
For her sake, Duan Yu leaves Duan Family Village, then makes his way from Ping County to Shanghai. The former farmer's son grows into a titan of industry. The one thing that never changes is that Su Yue always comes first.
More and more people envy Su Yue for marrying so well, but Duan Yu knows the truth: from the very beginning, he was the one who wanted to reach her lofty branch.
1. The heroine is quite spoiled and not exactly sweet-tempered at first, but she's fiercely protective of her own! The hero really is poor at the start, but he'll grow.
2. A slice-of-life, sweet romance with a focus on feelings. The setting is fictionalized and includes original elements, so please don't nitpick historical details.
3. I'll start posting once I have a good backlog. Updates are guaranteed, so please add it to your favorites!
Last revised on 2025/3/5, with proof saved.
Theme: Every step you take counts.
