Romance in the Land of Exile

One early spring evening, amidst a fine rain, as Zhan Shenzhi and his father were on their way home from a charity gala for underprivileged children, a person, covered in injuries, rushed out from the roadside and blocked their car.

Qiao Shubai, emaciated, clutching a secret video he had risked everything to obtain under his arm, knelt on the ground, begging Zhan’s father for shelter.

Years later, on the same date, at the same gala, Qiao Shubai, with a hefty sum, bid for a collection of children’s smiling faces, and publicly presented it to Zhan Shenzhi, stating his hope that Mr. Zhan would soon remove him from his blacklist.