The 1980s: The Cool Heiress Is Captured and Can’t Get Enough

[Delicate, soft white swan x untamed, rugged man]

Everyone thought Jiang Yin marrying Jiang Zhaoxing was a case of a flower stuck in a pile of manure.

After all, one was the cool, elegant lead dancer of the arts troupe, while the other was a rough drifter with no parents who did nothing but haul freight in trucks.

Only Jiang Yin knew that this marriage was the lifeline she had begged for.

Because of her strange illness, she couldn't live without him.

She was his addiction, while he was her medicine.

On countless nights after they married, she trembled in pain in his arms and begged him to hold her tighter.

Jiang Zhaoxing always did as she asked without a word, wiping away her cold sweat with his calloused fingertips as an inscrutable darkness churned in his eyes.

No one knew that this man, who would later become the richest man in the land, once sat alone late one night amid a floor littered with cigarette butts and muttered to himself:

“I'd rather she be sick for the rest of her life... than have her no longer need me.”

He was despicable enough to be grateful for her illness, because it let him hold on to the swan who otherwise would have flown far away.