Shanghai's Smoky Clouds

[Winner of the Excellence Award at the Eighth Chinese Romance Novel Contest] [Audio adaptation in progress] Original title: Half a Lifetime of Fate

She is the daughter of a fallen noble family, fluent in four languages, gentle yet resolute.

He is the son of a prestigious family, versed in both letters and arms, and shrewd to the core.

Their destined meeting takes root in fate, and the two become husband and wife in name.

Living side by side, they gradually fall in love, but a conspiracy that had been lurking all along drives them apart.

He says, “Pei Jingyun, if you dare leave, I’ll burn down the Pei family just to force you out!”

She says, “Shuyan, let me go, and we’ll owe each other nothing.”

Five years later, they meet again as the political landscape shifts and the land fills with the smoke of war.

With everything changed, will they mend their broken relationship, or will their love end and leave them strangers?