Three Years of Playing Sweet Couldn’t Melt His Heart? She Faked Her Death, and Now He’s Lost It

Everyone knew Yuan Yang loved Jing Zhen. Everyone except Jing Zhen himself.

After his wife died of illness, Jing Zhen could no longer resist his mother's threat to take her own life, so he married Yuan Yang, who was seven years younger than him. Before the wedding, they agreed on three rules: Yuan Yang would keep living as she pleased, while he would raise his daughter. They would stay out of each other's affairs.

Jing Zhen never knew that when he got engaged to his late wife, sixteen-year-old Yuan Yang had put on a wedding dress and slit her wrists for him.

When he tried to join his wife in death, Yuan Yang had climbed three thousand stone steps on her knees, bowing with every step through the snow and wind, praying only that Buddha would keep him safe.

Her mother-in-law urged her to have a child, her stepdaughter despised her, and her relatives mocked her. Yuan Yang poured all her heart and strength into maintaining this marriage in name only. Until one day, Jing Zhen appeared before her with another woman in his arms, speaking to her gently and showering her with affection.

Yuan Yang's heart finally died. She left behind divorce papers and vanished without a trace.

After she left, Jing Zhen went mad. Clutching her photograph, he searched every corner of the world for her...