For the benefit of the family, I was forced to break off the engagement with my childhood sweetheart, my fiancé, and marry his most feared uncle, Shen He, a Buddhist scholar revered by everyone in Beijing.
Rumor has it that he is ascetic, cold, and not close to women. He is the truly uncompromising leader of the Shen family. After we got married, he tore off all disguises and imprisoned me in his world. He would touch my face with his cold fingers late at night and order me to fall in love with him in a hoarse voice; he would lock my freedom with a necklace studded with sapphire, but he would call it "care" with a chuckle.
This was a hunting game dominated by him and there was no way I could escape. He pressed forward step by step, speaking the craziest possession in the gentlest tone. When he led me into the Shen family's old house and faced countless scrutinizing eyes, I realized that the secret hidden behind this imprisonment called marriage was far more than that.
