Everyone in Jincheng knew that Gu Yechen's wife, Lin Wan, was a docile canary, caged in the splendor of an elite family, with a gentle expression and never stepping out of line.
Until a carefully orchestrated “accident” led her to uncover the dark secrets of the Gu Group and realize she was nothing more than a pawn in his calculations. Beneath her once-gentle feathers, sharp thorns suddenly grew.
She began laying her plans in secret: sneaking into the study late at night, adding a trace of sedative to his coffee, hiding a crucial USB drive in the lining of a sanitary pad, and even taking the risk of contacting Qin Hao, the Gu family's business rival. Every step was a tightrope walk. She had to pretend to be a timid, clinging vine while stealing evidence right under his nose, evidence powerful enough to topple a business empire.
When the core data from the Gu Group's Southeast Asian project was leaked and its secret Swiss accounts exposed, the stock price collapsed. Only then, amid the alarms, did Gu Yechen realize that the creature he had kept was no canary, but a hunter with hidden claws.
He launched the “Shadow Hunt Plan,” determined to drag her back to the cage at any cost. But Lin Wan had already escaped with the evidence. On the run through a remote town, she encountered Lu Zhe, a pursuer whose identity was a mystery. Was he Gu Yechen's henchman, or a pawn of another power?
The gilded cage was broken, but the thorns only grew denser. She had never wanted merely to escape. She wanted the man who had pushed her into the abyss to taste the fall for himself. This life-or-death revenge and pursuit had only just begun.
Counterattack X Cage X Face-Slapping X Ruthless Scheming X Women Are Not Weak
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