This book is also known as The Imperfect Circle. It's the author's very first novel.
"When the final chapter of a happy ending is forcibly torn from the script of my life, I gaze into the cracked mirror of fate, yet see no reflection of any wrongdoing. Could it be that the happiness crushed to pieces was always a debt destined to be repaid?" Yuan Qi says in anguish.
As a criminal police officer, he has repeatedly distinguished himself in the pursuit of justice and enjoyed boundless success. As the young master of a wealthy family, he has also basked in the world's every honor. Fate has played a cruel trick on him: this love, unblessed by society, pierces his soul like thorns. After enduring countless trials, he resolutely leaves the police force and abandons worldly splendor, choosing instead to sit beside the ancient Buddha and a green lamp, seeking redemption and peace of mind amid the morning bells and evening drums.
In this vast mortal world, he was once saved by this person, yet he personally took the life of that person's closest friend. A tangled relationship that began with love and redemption, then became wrapped in layers of sin, ends in tragedy. He falls at the hands of the one he loves, like a moth flying into a flame. Everything is left to the fickle hand of fate, with only endless sighs remaining.
They spend half their lives in unwavering devotion, determined to hunt down a criminal, only to discover that the culprit is their own biological daughter. This cruel truth cuts through their souls like a blade, crushing their hearts to dust and leaving them filled with grief and bewilderment as they struggle in the whirlpool of fate.
