Su Nian, the receptionist of the billiard hall, met Lu Jingchen, a forty-year-old business tycoon. He saved her from danger, raised her in the villa, and allowed her to study - it seemed like a fairy tale between a tyrant and Cinderella. But Su Nian gradually discovered that she was chosen just because she had the same face as the woman Lu Jingchen hated most in his life.
That woman named Shen Wanqing betrayed Lu Jingchen twenty years ago and took away all his wealth, leaving behind the sentence "You are not even worthy of carrying my shoes." From then on, Lu Jingchen lived in hell, relying on hatred to climb to the top of wealth. And Su Nian is just his carefully chosen substitute - a tool used to vent twenty years of hatred.
More cruel truths followed: Su Nian was actually the biological daughter of Shen Wanqing and Lu Jingheng (Lu Jingchen's half-brother). From the beginning, Lu Jingchen knew her life experience. His closeness, his tenderness, everything about him, is a precise revenge.
But when Su Nian left in tears and Lu Jingchen's old wound on his chest burst and he fell in a pool of blood muttering "Don't leave", who could still distinguish the boundaries between hate and love?
The secret of life experience, the sadomasochism of a substitute, the truth about terminal illness, the hatred of twenty years of mispayment... This is a story about "cannot tell" - can't tell whether it is hate or love, can't tell whose shadow she is, can't tell who destroyed whom in this entanglement that started with revenge.
When he finally learned to love at the age of forty, she no longer dared to believe it.
