[Sweet-and-innocent act, flirtatious college girl VS reserved, innocent professor]
*Female lead's perspective:
At twenty-nine, she has a successful career but a broken family. Her future boyfriend is invited to Beijing to give a lecture.
She doesn't know he's a professor, much less that he's a painter.
All she knows is that the lips she stole a kiss from after pretending to be drunk at the bar were so hot they made her tremble.
None of the ten boyfriends she'd dated had ever made her feel this way!
Wearing a sheep's clothing, she deliberately approaches him. All she wanted was his body.
But God had more in store for her.
Escaping the family you were born into is hard. Finding your footing in society is hard. Leaving your mark on human history is even harder.
But Shen Qinglan never expected that sleeping with someone would bring her all of those things.
Snow swirls outside a villa in northern Iceland. Inside the sauna, beads of sweat trickle down through the dark hair at his temples.
He grips her waist and enunciates every word: "Shen Qinglan, don't you think I'm getting the raw end of this deal?"
"Professor Lu..." The girl moans softly. "You chose this yourself. Besides... without me, could you experience this kind of bliss?"
She curls her lips. She's never lost at the game of seducing men.
*Male lead's perspective:
At twenty-one, with his senior year of college about to begin, his future girlfriend Shen Qinglan takes all her savings and flees to Iceland.
It all starts because she's moved by a painting he has on display at a Beijing gallery.
After they unexpectedly meet in Beijing, he helps her prepare for the IELTS, arranges a place for her to stay in Iceland, and takes her to study volcanoes.
They share a room, watch the northern lights, and hike across glaciers.
The one thing he doesn't tell her is that he's the painter she admires.
He secretly rereads the seventy-five messages she sends him on WhatsApp, each one a heartfelt confession.
Lu Jin is delighted.
But with almost ten years between them, he has no idea how to approach such a "sweet, innocent" girl, much less make a move.
Only when she pins him to the bed and seductively starts taking off his clothes does Lu Jin realize he's been had!
His temple throbs. "Shen Qinglan! Who taught you all this?!"
*Omniscient perspective:
Fate is always playing strange jokes at the most inopportune moments.
Bathed in glory, he transforms her from a girl with nothing into a world-renowned figure.
Shen Qinglan has always thought Lu Jin saved her, but she saved him too.
When a flood of news reports condemns him, she is the only one who chooses to stand by his side.
She will never believe that he killed his parents. Even if he did, she would still love him.
Theme: Be grateful that you met.
