Flowers Fill the Branches

After her parents divorced, Mochou went with her father into the remote mountains when she was sixteen. They lived in isolation for four years. Then her father died unexpectedly while conducting research, leaving her alone in the world. A few months later, she learned from Uncle Liu, an old friend of her father’s, that someone had plagiarized his research. Determined to clear her father’s name, she returned to the city she had fled years ago, but not a single light was shining for her there. With nowhere else to turn, she thought of seeking help from Lin Baiyan, a man she had happened to save in the mountains. Lin Baiyan treated her with the utmost care, but she unexpectedly discovered that the senior fellow who had disappeared without a word years ago was Lin Baiyan’s close friend, and that they seemed to be hiding a secret. The person who had plagiarized her father’s work turned out to be Fang Qi, the younger brother of Fang Fei, her senior fellow’s fiancée. After several confrontations with Fang Qi, he told her that he knew Lin Baiyan’s secret. By then, Mochou had gradually fallen in love with Lin Baiyan, only to learn from Fang Qi that Lin Baiyan had been the one who broke her and her senior fellow apart, tricking him into leaving the mountains all those years ago…