Mending a broken relationship is easy. Tearing down the walls around your heart is hard.
Three years ago, Jiang Zhinian left home to pursue her future, leaving Shen Yanci with a resolute farewell and an accidental “betrayal.” Back then, he was a fragile boy trapped in his family's turmoil, unable to even protect a cat. She was a bright, pure-hearted bird who refused to be caged.
Three years later, Jiang Zhinian returns to the Shen family for a friend's engagement. The former lovers meet again. One drinks alone in the shadows, surrounded by misery and loneliness; the other stands calmly in the sunlight, as if the past were no more than a passing cloud.
He is not doing well: family infighting, parents at odds. She appears indifferent, drawing a clear boundary with cool rationality.
But what lies between them is not only three years and unresolved misunderstandings. It is also the cold rules of the gilded cage that is the Shen family, the elders' control disguised as love, and the deep wounds in Shen Yanci's heart that refuse to heal, along with his almost self-destructive dependence.
When old wounds are ripped open and the family's undercurrents sweep them both into the heart of the storm once more, will they run away again, or find the courage to face the bottomless mire together
