Heart's Desire

Since childhood, Shun Yin and Mu Changzhou never got along. She was proud and noble, while he was a man of few words. In their rare encounters, she would only address him with the same polite and distant tone as others: "Second Brother Mu." That year, at just seventeen, he achieved the prestigious title of Jinshi, his fame spreading across both capitals. At the night banquet by the Qujiang River, countless noble families sought to make him their son-in-law, and even her own father was moved to arrange a marriage alliance. Shun Yin merely glanced from afar at the frail and pale figure at the center of the crowd and shook her head: "He and I are not the same kind of people." After that, the...