If you love someone, would you turn him into someone else’s shadow?
Gu Jin would. So he found Lin Xi and made him into a perfect copy.
If you love someone, would you lose yourself for him?
Lin Xi would. He endured every indignity until he could no longer find himself.
When the substitute romance trope collides with the truth turned upside down, who does this love story of torment ultimately wound, and who does it redeem?