▸ Both leads are inexperienced in love | Angsty romance | A pursuit-after-the-breakup arc
▸ A battle of equals: a fallen heiress perseveres and grows vs. a cold CEO who plans his every move
▸ One twist after another: her father’s death, family secrets, and the ultimate choice between love and hate
▸ Tension at its most intense: “I’m willing to descend into hell, but I have to drag you down with me, because you once promised you’d never let go.”
Xia Zhinian was once the darling of fate, until a car accident took her father, her family went bankrupt, and her seriously ill mother’s exorbitant medical bills crushed the last of her dignity.
With nowhere else to turn, she met Lu Jingyuan, the youngest person ever to take control of the Lu Group, and the last person her father called before he died.
He lured her into signing a three-year contract with triple the salary and full coverage of her mother’s medical expenses, hiring her as his “personal assistant.”
She thought he was saving her from desperation, unaware that she was a pawn he had chosen with care.
His tenderness was a trap, his protection a cage. Behind his almost obsessive “protection” lay the Lu family’s buried crimes and the bloody truth about her father.
“I’ve bought your time, your freedom, everything you have.”
“From now on, your pain, your happiness, your hatred and your love can have to do with me alone.”
Just as Xia Zhinian realizes she has fallen for him, a confidential document tears away the mask: Lu Jingyuan’s name is in the signature field for the “accident” three years ago.
The love is a lie, the salvation is a lie, and even the car accident that destroyed her family may have been a carefully planned murder.
Can this relationship, built on lies, reach a final dawn through truth and bloodshed?
