Not By Chance

She was merely a means to his end. All he wanted was her family’s restaurant—never her heart. But as she smiled at him, unaware… she couldn’t have known the man standing before her might be the one to turn her whole life upside down.



In a small grilled pork restaurant at the heart of the city, Ning An lives a quiet life, simple days filled with food, family, and routine comfort. Until one night, a quiet stranger walks in. Polite, composed, and unreadable. He becomes a regular. Then something more.



But behind his calm gaze is a reason he can’t confess.

And in the shadows of his past… someone still lingers.



One woman is beginning to open her heart.

The other has never let his go.

And between the truth and the lie, who will be the first to walk away?