On the day of receiving the certificate, Gu Jingchen burst into the door with his lover who smelled of perfume in his arms, and threw the marriage certificate in my face: "Lin Wan, are you worthy of being the young mistress of the Gu family?"
Before I could recover from the betrayal, he pinned me down on the bed and strangled my neck. His fingertips ran over the old scar on my wrist: "You will be my plaything in this life, and you don't even have the qualifications to resist!"
Bruises overlap old wounds, and humiliation is etched into the bones. I faked an accident overnight and escaped into the rental house with my suitcase, thinking I could finally take a breath, but there was a loud knock on the door.
Standing outside the door was Gu Yanzhi, Gu Jingchen's vicious and cruel uncle. He threw over the surveillance screenshot of my escape, and locked his dark eyes on me: "Marry me, and I will help you ruin Gu Jingchen's reputation. Otherwise, I will ask him to arrest you now."
Just after escaping from the violent cage, he fell into the gilded cage he had laid. I was afraid of his desire for control, but I couldn't help but feel my heart flutter when he wiped away old scars for me; I hated his strength, but I relied on him to stand in front of me and beat Gu Jingchen to pieces.
He has hidden his secret love for five years, hidden in the footsteps outside my door late at night, hidden in his determination to collect Gu Jingchen's dirty information for me, and even hidden in his promise that "no one can bully you in the future."
When Gu Jingchen's cheating video and evidence of misappropriation of public funds were made public, and when he was screamed and taken away by the police, Gu Yanzhi knelt on one knee and put the cherry blossom ring on my fingertip: "Lin Wan, this time is not a transaction, I really want to marry you."
I looked at the red eyes and suddenly understood - it turns out that the best salvation is to change from "can't escape" to "don't want to escape"
