For Linh Lan, happiness was as simple as gathering with her family, savoring the dishes her father cooked, arranging flowers with her mother, and blowing out the candles on a strawberry cake on her birthday. But that dazzling pink world suddenly crumbled with the intrusion of a third wheel. Every ounce of trust shattered. She abandoned herself to a reckless lifestyle, for nothing could save her from the bitter truth-that her parents were merely playing out a marriage of convenience, nothing more than two friends putting on an act. Until he walked into her life-devoted like a father, gentle like a mother-yet he, too, was struggling to cope with the ruins of his own failed marriage. And she thought, a lost soul and an abandoned child-what a bitter combination. But perhaps... it could also be sweet, like those strawberries from the past.