To save her family from bankruptcy, Yang Nan accepts a marriage contract with Wu Yacheng, the king of the capital’s business world. Only on her wedding day does she realize she is nothing but a stand-in, astonishingly similar to Lin Wei, Wu Yacheng’s first love, who died in a car accident three years ago.
A white dress, straight black hair, and Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” on the piano.
He gradually molds her into the image of the dead woman, yet every night he sits in silence before a shattered photo frame. Their arrangement is meant to remain cold and strictly transactional, until Yang Nan discovers a red sandalwood box in the attic of the villa. Inside are two birth certificates bearing the same date. She and Lin Wei are identical twins.
The long-lost older sister’s secret, buried by death, is slowly stirring.
As fragments of memory begin to fall into place, Yang Nan realizes her “flashbacks” are no coincidence. A late-night visit from psychiatrist Lu Chenzhou brings a chilling truth: before Lin Wei died, she used hypnosis to “implant” some of her memories in Yang Nan.
“She wanted you to live on in her place and find her killer.”
Every clue points to the man Wu Yacheng respects most: his adoptive father, Wu Zhentian, the true power behind the Wu Group. A business conspiracy from thirty years ago, the truth about her parents’ mysterious deaths, the brutal circumstances behind the sisters’ separation... A vast web has long been spun.
The marriage contract begins to change.
Wu Yacheng can no longer tell whether he is protecting Lin Wei’s shadow or Yang Nan herself. And when Yang Nan puts on Lin Wei’s pearl earrings and faces Wu Zhentian at the edge of a cliff, she finally understands:
This was never a game of pretending to be someone else.
It is a ritual of revenge for the dead.
And she is both the sacrifice
