Top architecture student Lin Xuejian kneels at the construction site where her father fell to his death. A shard of his hard hat cuts into her palm, while her mother’s kidney failure diagnosis lies at the hospital cashier’s desk. Desperate to raise 800,000 yuan for treatment, she hides her student ID and takes a job serving champagne at a nightclub. But after meeting Shen Nanxing, her life is completely rewritten. The impeccably dressed man offers her more than money to save her mother: he also gives her a red-string bracelet that holds the secret of his childhood trauma.
From nightclub hostess to chief designer at the Shen Corporation, she thinks she has seized the gears of fate. Then she sees “twin pregnancy” on her test results and plunges into despair. Shen Nanxing’s ex-wife returns, throws her designs to the floor, and sneers that she is “a baby-making tool fit only to be kept in the dark.” On a stormy night, Xuejian vanishes into a blind spot in the surveillance cameras, pregnant and alone.
Five years later, backstage at the International Architecture Awards, Lin Xuejian traces the safety buckle pattern on her model, “Wings of Rebirth.” Suddenly, her twins are pulled into the arms of a sharply dressed man. Shen Nanxing runs his fingertip over the teardrop-shaped mole by his daughter’s eye and says hoarsely, “They’re my children.”
