★ A powerful man falls hard x a beautiful divorcée
★ A beauty takes down her scumbag ex-husband, with an age gap and a marriage-before-love romance
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Ruan Wuci is a rising star in a traditional Chinese orchestra.
She loves to glide about in a teal qipao,
with a slender waist and long legs, her curves as alluring as a temptress's.
When she plucks the strings with her right hand and presses them with her left, playing the pipa to sing of the past and present, her music is enchanting and utterly captivating.
Her one flaw: she married young.
But lately,
rumors are swirling through the upper circles of the capital that she's about to become a cast-off wife.
Her husband, the second young master of the Lu family, Lu Yichuan, has been unfaithful.
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At the National Centre for the Performing Arts,
Ruan Wuci's performance of "Ambush from Ten Sides" stuns the audience.
In the backstage restroom,
her colleagues are also enthusiastically discussing the song of defeat at Gaixia.
"Is she turning heartbreak into motivation?"
"Young Master Lu doesn't want her anymore, and being known as a discarded rich man's wife doesn't sound good. No wonder she's pulling out all the stops to become our troupe's top pipa player!"
"How long can she hold on to that top spot without her husband bankrolling her?"
"Come on, why worry about a beauty? With that bewitching face and figure, she'll have tycoons lining up to pursue her even after the divorce. I heard..."
Ruan Wuci turns gracefully.
She thinks, Fine. I'm going to be the pipa section's principal, no matter what.
"Click, "
The sound of a lighter's wheel scraping interrupts her steps.
She looks up and sees a tall, slender man in a suit leaning against the hallway wall, turning his head as he lights the cigarette between his fingers.
Fu Chi, head of the top-tier Fu family,
noble and aloof, decisive and ruthless,
is the capital's most mysterious eligible bachelor.
Before the performance, the young women in the orchestra had gone wild discussing him, saying it was rare for him to appear in public.
"I hear Miss Ruan is in the middle of getting a divorce?"
Ruan Wuci furrows her brow, feeling offended. Anyone can comment on it, once or twice, as if she has no temper.
"What, are you getting in line too, Mr. Fu?"
She says it out of spite.
The moon shines bright, its light spilling through the window frame and casting a cool silver gleam across half his sharp features. He lifts his lips, seeming to smile, as a curl of smoke spreads through the wordless heat between them.
Crimson, flickering.
Burning the mandala to ash.
"Mm. I'll get in line."
Theme: True love conquers all.
