This is not a melodrama. It is the story of millions of women saddled with debts that aren't theirs.
When a romance scam leaps from a virtual chat window into real life, and promises of love turn into contracts for debts worth millions, thirty-year-old Lin Wei becomes a sacrifice chosen by fate. On the seventh day after her boyfriend vanished with the money, she finds a fake diamond ring in the trash and an abandoned USB drive in a corner. It contains a complete record of how he used “polished bank statements” and “romance tactics” to lure her step by step into a trap, along with detailed information about his next “target.”
“Pay up or get out.” The debt collectors' roars and the landlord's furious shouts weave into a suffocating net. But the woman who once thought love was everything suddenly laughs. “Want me dead? Why don't you watch yourselves fall apart first?”
She uses scissors from the pet shop to cut through false tenderness, and the same patience she uses to bathe cats to piece together the chain of evidence. She lies low on online loan forums late at night and holds her own against threats from debt collection agencies. When she slaps the first piece of evidence in the scammer's face, the whole internet is watching: just how many men like Li Zhe can this woman, saddled with a million in debt, drag into the light of truth?
This is one person's revenge, but also a collective fight by millions against predatory loans and romance scams.
