A prison in the name of love, a redemption written in blood and tears.
On her eighteenth birthday, a marriage contract locks Lin Xi into the abyss of Gu Mingyuan. The obsessive CEO of the Gu Group hides his childhood trauma behind a tie that's always crooked, using cold, confining control as a pretext for his frenzied possessiveness. Her mother, Su Wan, the elegant, sharp-tongued former wife of the Lin Group's chairman, hides a tiny camera beneath her pearl earrings, turning every breath her daughter takes into a piece on her board. When the shattered pocket watch stops forever on the rainy night Lin Xi was locked away at six, she awakens to the truth in the grip of claustrophobia: even a delicate glass flower can use its petals to cut a prisoner's throat.
The mirrored lives of twin flowers, light and shadow in the dead of night.
Xia Yan, a wandering painter in Switzerland and Lin Xi's twin sister, shares her heartbeat. She fills faded watercolor sketchbooks with portraits of her younger sister, yet her self-imposed isolation costs her eighteen years of life. When she returns, sensitive and distant in the way of an artist, she discovers that her sister has already learned to draw with iron bars in Gu Mingyuan's secret room. And Lu Chen, the psychiatrist who once treated Lin Xi with a silver stethoscope, hides a dagger and a double identity beneath his white coat. Behind his gentle, calculating smile lies a ten-year plot for revenge.
Blood-red roses in the arena of power, a deadly struggle among thorns.
