Episode 1

It was a hot summers day in late July 1937.

The sun felt as if it where whipping the backs of everyone under it.

Unlike everyone else who where suffering Li Hua was shielded by her best friend and maid with an umbrella, as they conversed in their favorite garden. Filled to the brim with exotic flowers and plants such as Li Hua’s Favorite flower the azaleas.

Li Hua was an eighteen year old lad girl who lived we up to her name meaning “beautiful flower”. She was in deed a gorgeous sight too see, and all the men in town can attest to that.

Li Hua single handedly had all the boys in town simultaneously fall madly in love over with her (looks).

Li Hua was disinterested in them though, because she new the truth. Which was that all of them only appreciated her appearance and not her for who she was. So Li Hua thought they were all vulgar for only loveing someone based of their looks.

Li Hua came from the wealthiest family in town. Which meant that she would most likely be bound by a forced arranged marriage. That was the last thing Li wanted so as she came from notoriously sharp witted business man. She devised a contract with her parents saying that if she couldn’t find a man she wanted yes to marry by her 19th birthday her parents could betroth here to whom ever of their liking.

This frightened her we parents because the contractact also said she could pick whoever she wanted despite their family background. But, knowing their daughters particular pickiness they singed the contract. Which made Li smile from ear to ear.

Li had always been like a doll to her parents or a bargaining chip at their disposalosal. This was the first time me in her entire life she felt some sense off control. And in Li’s perspective active it was as though best thinking she had ever experienced.

That was months ago though on Li’s eighteenth birthday, which meant that her birthday on August 9th was just around the corner. So naturallyurally Li was amidst a crisis thinking off all the desperate push overs who weree on love with her that might’ve work.

She just couldn’t even bring herself to entertain just the thought off spending the rest of her like with any other them. Which left here at

a great loss, because the man her parents wanted her to marry was worse in tenfold.

Xiao Lu an arrogant and selfish man who went to study abroad and thinks he is a big shot now that at he got to study all k we the world becaus his family is “loaded” as he says. Butt he had a good face and a good sense of acting so all the elders thought he was an angel. Only his “friends” from school knew his true persona. It just isn’t so happens that Li was one of those lucky few who gotta to enjoy his true nature.

Li wasn’t afraid of him though, she was afraid of her fair after marriage with him.

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