Staying in an Old Mansion? She's Caught the Eye of a Peacock Youth

The year her mother died, Lin Wan was forced to repay her father's gambling debts with a marriage contract. Refusing to accept her fate, she took the letter her mother had left her on her deathbed and fled alone to Mingchuan. She knocked on the door of the Gu family mansion, hoping only for a safe roof over her head and a desk where she could study. Grandma Gu laid down the rules: they would live together in the old mansion, but pretend not to know each other at school. Yet on her very first night there, Lin Wan got caught up in the troubles of Gu Yan, the notorious star of the school: a sharp-tongued, arrogant, outwardly obnoxious "peacock" of a young master, hiding secrets and a past he dared not reveal. The more she tried to live an ordinary life, the more he pressed her at every turn; the more he tried to push her away, the more he was held fast by her unbending spirit. Two wounded people living under the same roof, they go from mistrusting each other to letting their guards down. Through one crisis and reversal after another, she begins to save herself, her sharpness hidden beneath the surface, while he slowly heals, still guarding his secrets. All she wants is a "home" where no one will ever sell her off again; what he offers her is far more than just a roof over her head.