After graduating from university, the protagonist, Ai Xing, returns home from Shanghai and meets the handsome Song Yuan through a matchmaking arrangement. After they marry, she discovers that Song is gay. Kindhearted, she chooses to keep it secret and endure in silence. The reappearance of Ai Xing's former lover, Qian Haoming, disrupts their calm. Qian Haoming's girlfriend believes Ai Xing broke them up and takes revenge on her. Caught in a storm of public opinion, Ai Xing comes to understand Song's predicament, but for the sake of her child's healthy upbringing, she decides to marry Qian. On the eve of the wedding, Qian is jailed over financial issues. Song offers to raise the child with her until Qian is released. But by then, Song's mental state has changed, and he grows increasingly irritable. After enduring domestic violence and all kinds of other troubles, Ai loses faith in Song. Tormented both mentally and physically, and pressured by public opinion, Song chooses to end his life.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
