You Wu, a 25-year-old illustrator whose parents both died, lived a prosperous and ordinary life until she met Edmund von Klein, a 29-year-old hereditary duke in a bookstore on a rainy night. He was elegant, restrained, but secretly paranoid.
He carefully planned every chance encounter, remembering all her preferences and making her think she had met her soul mate. It was not until after marriage that You Wu gradually discovered:
His tenderness is a trap: from the umbrella they first met to the decoration of the wedding room, everything is the result of precise calculations.
His love stems from obsession: she is the "perfect gene carrier" that he spent three years selecting, and she fits the "mother body" in the family's prophecy.
His possessiveness is almost pathological: there are only a few guests at the wedding because he doesn't want others to take another look at her; after the wedding night, he secretly collects the blood-stained sheets like trophies.
You Wu struggled between sweetness and suffocation, while Edmund was lost between plan and sincerity - he thought he just wanted her to give birth to an heir, but he gradually became greedy for her unconscious dependence in her sleep, and the light in her eyes when she laughed and called him a "control freak".
This is a love that begins with conspiracy.
And sincerity is often hidden in the deepest paranoia
