I Only Wish We’d Never Known Each Other

Before her twentieth birthday, Lin Zhi was a little princess raised in the lap of luxury. Elegant and refined, she loved nothing more than following Lu Jingshen around in pretty dresses and sweetly calling, “Brother Jingshen, when I grow up, I’m going to marry you!” On her twentieth birthday, Lin Zhi finally fulfilled her dream and became intimate with Lu Jingshen. She thought they would get married, but instead the Lin family was framed and went bankrupt, her father leapt from the twenty-eighth floor, and her brother vanished without a trace... Lin Zhi fought desperately to save her severely depressed mother from death’s door. At her lowest point, she knelt before Lu Jingshen and humbly begged him for help, only to hear him say, “Lin Zhi, you’re pathetic!” At that moment, her heart died. That very night, Lin Zhi fled the capital and disappeared from Lu Jingshen’s world...

Five years later, Lu Jingshen learns the truth about what happened back then. He discovers that Lin Zhi nearly died because of their child, and is consumed by regret. He wants to make it up to her, but she coldly shuts the door in his face. “Mr. Lu, five years ago I knelt before you, and you paid 200,000 yuan to end things between us. Have you forgotten?”

Lu Jingshen’s eyes are full of anguish. He drops to his knees and says, trembling, “Lin Zhi, I’m sorry. I was wrong. Please come back. I’ll give you anything you want...”

Only after the truth comes to light does Lin Zhi realize that every hardship she endured was because of Lu Jingshen. Lu Jingshen was a poisonous candy: sweet at first taste, but once swallowed, it made every organ in her body ache.