Gu Li will never forget that summer. What had been an ordinary afternoon became the beginning of all her darkness.
Countless tortures in the psychiatric hospital nearly drove her to the brink of madness, but she survived. She knew she had to get revenge and make them pay.
She lay low in the shadows for years, all for one thing: revenge. But then someone appeared and disrupted her plans.
The first time she saw Jiang Haoran, he was wearing a crisp white shirt and smiling brightly, like an innocent college student. But Gu Li knew he was not as simple as he seemed. There was an unspeakable danger in his eyes, like a beast lurking in the dark, ready to tear through his gentle facade at any moment.
Jiang Haoran’s arrival was like a carefully orchestrated rainy-season invasion. With the scent of lily of the valley, he quietly seeped into Gu Li’s life.
As they spent more time together, the walls around her heart gradually came down, but not completely. She still kept her guard up around him.
Because she knew all too well that she was surrounded by darkness, and she shouldn’t drag him into it.
An unexpected incident brought them together. Jiang Haoran had always kept someone in his heart. When they met again years later, she no longer recognized him. He pretended to be innocent as he drew close, but soon realized that whenever he got near her, all his disguises fell away.
Watching her step toward the abyss, he was overcome with heartache and anguish. He wanted to pull her back and tell her he was there for her, but she said, “I’ve been in hell for a long time. What light could there be for me?”
