Two Accidents, One Lifetime of Heartache

Two unexpected incidents are thunderbolts cast by fate, cleaving apart the once-parallel lives of Gu Nanxing and Lin Xu and igniting a wealthy-family romance entangled with betrayal and redemption. She is the heiress to the Gu Group. On the surface, she is a gentle student at a top fashion college, but her fingertips hide a talent for computer science that could shake the internet. For Jiang Yi, her boyfriend of four years, she willingly conceals her brilliance and becomes the seemingly ordinary supporter behind him, only to be deeply betrayed. He is the head of Lin International, commanding a business empire at just twenty-nine. Coldness and suspicion are his armor, while deep in his heart lies the pain of his younger sister’s early death. He has always scorned warmth and tenderness.

Beneath the neon lights of a celebration banquet, a plot quietly takes shape. Egged on by Xia Tian, Jiang Yi tries to use alcohol to force Gu Nanxing to give in, but an urgent matter makes him abandon her, drunk, in the corridor. Meanwhile, Lin Xu is ambushed by a rival, and as the drugs take effect, he collides with Gu Nanxing, who has wandered into his room. Together, they stumble into an irreparable mistake. A panicked escape at dawn, catching an affair at home, and Jiang Yi’s twisting of the truth to humiliate her: three blows send Gu Nanxing’s world crashing down. She leaves with nothing but the manuscript containing her core code and cuts off her four-year relationship.

In the depths of despair, a chance reunion at a bar becomes their second entanglement by fate. Alcohol and drugs mingle, and for a brief moment, two lonely, hurting hearts find comfort in the darkness, only to become trapped in an even tighter bind. Lin Xu presents her with a “one-year strategic cooperation contract,” defining their mistake as a business matter. Wanting to put her past behind her once and for all, Gu Nanxing silently signs, beginning a cohabitation that is cold and fraught with tension.