“When he says he loves me, the reflection of someone else is hidden in his eyes.”
The day criminal defense lawyer Shen Youning receives a pearl earring from her missing older sister, the old Cheng family mansion is seeping a sickly-sweet scent of blood in the pouring rain.
She bandages the wounds of Cheng Yanqiu, the deranged heir, with her own hands. But in the mirror, she sees the scar on his collarbone twitch strangely. It is unmistakably shaped like the birthmark of his twin brother, Cheng Moqiu.
Twin brothers who drowned fifteen years ago, a clock in the old mansion forever stopped at the moment of death, two skeletons entwined at the bottom of a hot spring...
When Cheng Yanqiu strokes the corner of her eye with bloodstained fingers, Shen Youning finally sees through the scheme:
Every witness is recounting her memories, every medical record is written in her handwriting, and the jade earring in Madam Cheng’s coffin is now hanging from her own ear.
“Welcome to the real world.” Someone chuckles in the darkness, their lips against her trembling back.
A warm breath entwines with the bubbles that sank to the bottom of the pool all those years ago. “Now guess: is it the host personality who wants to kill you, or me?”
You are a complication of my pathological possessiveness, the prize in a deadly battle between two personalities, and the only surviving sacrifice in the Cheng family’s century-old blood curse.
