To save her mother, she is forced to sign a contract and become the caged bird of Singaporean business tycoon Nangong Chen.
He gives her the most indulgent love, yet when passion takes hold, he forces her to swallow a pill and warns her coldly, “Remember your place.”
She thinks love will grow with time, until she discovers the old photograph he treasures: his late first love, who looks seven-tenths like her.
All along, every tender gesture was meant for someone else, seen through her.
“Mu Ziling, you’re only her replacement.”
When he personally clasps around her neck the necklace that belonged to his first love, her heart finally dies, and she begins plotting her escape.