As people say, if there is a stepmother, there is also a stepfather. Shang Shu was handed that exact script by fate and accepted her overseas assignment at eighteen. She learned to roam high circles as a glamorous butterfly and attached to Gu Sui, a person she trusted for four years. She became deep in mutual dependency; then Gu disappeared. Three years later she is now a famous designer and CEO, joking that breakups are just play while work keeps winning. She drank heavily at night to forget him. A diagnosis then broke her back; she endured treatment and danger yet still could not let go. So Gu Sui lowered his pride and returned to recapture the lost little girl. Read guide: older alpha boss and younger tsundere receive, age gap seven, later forced love, possessive extremes. Pre-release notes from another story: next work, Declared at the Surface, features Miao Xuan, the gentle photography assistant, and a calm eye doctor. Miao Xu, with a damaged injury and broken house situation, stays at a childhood friend and faces a quiet yet unreadable woman who keeps asking her to keep quiet. The cool doctor, who had been perfectly distant, discovers just how expressive those fox-like eyes can be, and the tone shifts from daily office friction to constant intimate tension. When she says keep your voice down, that is no longer a simple instruction but an emotional line.