A Stranger’s Scent

Lin Xiaoyun once thought she had everything anyone could envy: a considerate, successful husband, Chen Yuan; a lively, adorable daughter named Jiejie; and a warm home she had lovingly built over seven years. But on an ordinary stormy day, while tidying her husband's study, she accidentally triggered a mechanism in an old desk. A stack of yellowed letters slipped into her hand like invitations from hell.

The letters were written by a woman named “Su Yalin.” Their passionate words, anxious waiting, and veiled references to “taking care of things over there” pointed unmistakably to the eve of Lin Xiaorong and Chen Yuan's wedding. The revelation that chilled her to the bone was the crucial detail buried in the letters: Su Yalin was pregnant with Chen Yuan's child.

“Once I've taken care of things here, we can be together forever.”

These words of love, written to Chen Yuan, were nothing short of a spiritual torture for Lin Xiaorong. For the first time, she realized that the marriage she treasured might have been built on another woman's suffering and disappearance.