Lin Wan was once the woman Huo Zhanbai hated more than anyone. He used a marriage contract to imprison her by his side for one purpose: to make her “pay” for the past by tormenting her day after day. For three years, he grew ever more vicious, bringing different women home and putting on a show of affection in front of her, all to watch her suffer, break down, regret everything, and beg for mercy. Yet Lin Wan remained as still as a pool of stagnant water, calmly accepting it all and handing him a signed divorce agreement again and again after each humiliation.
Huo Zhanbai’s fury built to its peak in the face of her silence. At last, in a fit of anger, he smashed every agreement and demanded to know how she could be so heartless. Lin Wan merely smiled and held out her hearing aids and her phone, its screen lit up. The cold words on it pierced through all of Huo Zhanbai’s hatred and pretense in an instant: “Mr. Huo, have you forgotten? I lost my hearing in that car accident three years ago.”
Only then did Huo Zhanbai realize that his three years of revenge, every cruel word and vicious performance, had been nothing but a silent pantomime to her. She had never “heard” the pain he inflicted. The foundation of his hatred collapsed all at once, leaving behind nothing but endless shock, regret, and a huge truth he would have to face: the car accident three years ago, everything Lin Wan had silently endured, and the twisted feelings he himself had never recognized. A contract born of hatred was now forced to turn toward atonement and the abyss of true emotion.
