A Bouquet in My Arms

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Chen Yuyan's three biggest goals in life:

1. Escape her rotten family of origin (done)

2. Open a flower shop (done)

3. Adopt a kitten (done)

Life in this city moved at a frantic pace. Traffic surged like a tide, while honking horns and impatient muttering rose and fell all around her.

A man in a sharp suit walked by and stepped on the bouquet Chen Yuyan had set outside. He radiated wealth and status, and his cool expression made it clear he was someone she couldn't afford to offend.

She was a coward, but her cat wasn't.

It pounced on him and unleashed a flurry of kitty punches.

Chen Yuyan was about to rush over and rescue the cat, but the furious, puffed-up feline turned exceptionally docile in the man's hands.

From then on, the man came by every evening to buy a bouquet.

She figured he must be giving the flowers to his girlfriend.

* Chi Zhuo had recently developed a habit. Every day after leaving the office, he'd tell his assistant-driver to take him in the opposite direction from home, to a tiny flower shop. He'd go see the bright smile there and buy a bouquet.

When Chi Zhuo's mother came to visit, she found herself staring thoughtfully at the vases that filled every corner of his home.

At a work gathering in a bar one evening, Chi Zhuo ran into Chen Yuyan again.

She had her hair tied up and a black cap pulled low. Dressed in hip-hop style, she played the drums, then went onstage with the others to dance in a big formation.

For once, Chi Zhuo lost control of his expression.

Who was that girl playing the drums and dancing street dance? Was she the same girl with waist-length hair who gently sold flowers?!

She had two other sides to her, too? He loved her even more.

A stunning beauty who could be sweet or cool, a wife or a husband, and a Beijing heir who was completely obsessed with his girl.

Synopsis written on July 4, 2025, and a screenshot has been saved.

1. Both leads are each other's first and only partners, online and offline.

2. Four-year age gap, with the male lead older.

3. No real-life inspirations. Please don't read real people into the characters.

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**Lin Geyue is a tarot reader. After spending so much time around the occult, she's met all kinds of people, but then a remarkably mysterious client shows up. Dressed all in black and wearing a mask, the client looks even more like a fortune-teller than she does. All they're missing is a crystal ball.

The client politely says they want a reading about the future. The first time Lin Geyue draws her tarot cards, they inexplicably scatter all over the table.

The client leaves behind a new black deck edged in gold, then hurries away.

She opens the deck and draws a card spirit, only to find a strange man wearing an eerie black mask. All she can see are his chilling, icy eyes.

* From then on, strange things keep happening. Every so often, she transmigrates to a baffling world where there is a harsh, heartless sect leader, fellow disciples who change with the wind, and a pitiful junior brother everyone bullies.

The tarot cards in Lin Geyue's hands have become magical artifacts, too.

After weighing her options, she decides the pitiful junior brother seems the easiest to handle. She teams up with him to establish their own foothold in this dog-eat-dog world and struggle to survive.

* What Lin Geyue doesn't know is that the young man behind her often watches her with a sinister gaze.

Her junior brother is reclusive and strange, with a terrifyingly obsessive streak.

When he lifts his face and gives her an innocent-looking smile, what he's thinking is:

What if she tries to run away?

What if other living things keep coveting her and getting too close to her?

She likes this fan so much. Could she end up loving it more than me?

How can I be with her forever?

Even after death, our bones must remain entwined.

1. The male lead is a clingy, mad-dog type who is almost always by her side. He conceals his age and is actually older than the female lead, but pretends to be her younger brother because that's what she likes. Later, he follows her into the modern world. The card spirit in her tarot deck is the male lead: it's essentially a deck he made just for her, with a timeline mismatch.

2. Contains obsessive behavior, faked death, and yandere-style madness. Read with caution.

3. The female lead's tarot cards and the male lead's world's cultivation arts are different. They belong to Western and Eastern systems of the occult, respectively, so the female lead can also be called a mage.

Theme: Break free from the mire and embrace happiness