For ten years, Ling Shen helped the “benefactor” with the scar on his arm, building walls around him and shielding him from every storm. Even after the man left the country, Ling Shen clung to a hollow promise.
Then he met Su Nian, the bookstore owner whose features so closely resembled someone from his past. Acting on selfish motives, Ling Shen offered him a stand-in contract, thinking it would fill the void. But day by day, he found himself developing an uncontrollable attachment to the man he was always warning to “remember his place.”
Su Nian accepted the contract. Ling Shen's features looked so much like those of his deceased lover that Su Nian greedily used that face to revisit the past. Yet in Ling Shen's clumsy concern and the sight of him repairing bookshelves late at night, Su Nian gradually lost track of whether he was looking at a shadow or the person before him.
When the “benefactor,” Jiang Yi, returned to the country, Su Nian made a graceful exit. But during his confrontation with Jiang Yi, Ling Shen uncovered the truth: his ten-year obsession had been built on a lie. On the verge of collapse, he suddenly remembered the scar on Su Nian's arm, the one he had overlooked. It was exactly the same as the mark left by the person who had saved his life in childhood.
He searched frantically for Su Nian, only for the other man to calmly hand him an old photograph. The person in the picture had the same features as Ling Shen. Su Nian spoke softly: “You look for your benefactor, and I keep my shadow. Ling Shen, you're the one who's been standing in for someone else.”
A redemption born of mistaken identity, and two loves entangled in the past. When the scar matches the face, the line between stand-in and original begins to blur. Can they see each other's true feelings amid the ruins of lies and obsession?
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