[Dual Male Leads + Revenge + Wealthy Family Drama + High Angst + Bad Ending]
[Huo Lin (sharp-tongued, putting on an act, top)]× [Li Chenxiao (short-tempered, playing dumb while hiding his true strength, bottom)]
A plane crash took Li Chenxiao’s parents. Then, in the year he graduated from college, his older brother, the only family he had left, died in an accident after taking the blame for Huo Lin.
By chance, Li Chenxiao learned that Huo Lin needed a heart transplant, and that his own heart was a match. He deliberately got close to Huo Lin with a clear purpose, but Huo Lin acted as if he didn’t notice. He accepted everything Li Chenxiao offered and even treated him as a stand-in for his brother.
From then on, Li Chenxiao took the blame for Huo Lin while gathering evidence of his crimes. To bring Huo Lin down for good, he did the unexpected and led Huo Lin to fall in love with him. Fortunately, Huo Lin fell for him. Unfortunately, Li Chenxiao became deeply entangled too, but he could never come to terms with his brother’s death.
At twenty-six, Li Chenxiao killed himself in a car, leaving Huo Lin his still-beating heart. Even at the end, his last hope was that Huo Lin’s heart would get better.
“Li Chenxiao, you win. You’ve made me your keepsake too. I can’t even be a normal person anymore.”
The doctor told Huo Lin that when a heart transplant recipient has a strong emotional bond with the donor, the transplanted heart may develop a “memory rejection reaction.”
Huo Lin began experiencing frequent flashbacks of Li Chenxiao’s memories from before his suicide.
He took out his phone and played the sound of a heart monitor. From then on, he could only fall asleep each night with that sound beside him, as if Li Chenxiao were still there.
Side couple: [Huo Zheng (ice-cold top)]× [An Yan (sweet, mute bottom)]
A mute man given away as an object of humiliation, yet he wrote a few large words in blood on the floor: “In exchange, one chance to decide my own fate.”
