Three years ago, Su Wan told Li Jinyuan, “You can’t give me what I want,” when he was down on his luck, casting him into the depths of despair before vanishing from his life.
Three years later, he has become the ruthless CEO at the helm of a business empire. To save her critically ill older brother, she has no choice but to kneel before him.
“I can save him.” Li Jinyuan tosses a contract at her feet, hatred burning in his dark eyes. “Be my captive bird. Trade a year of your freedom for your brother’s life.”
With tears in her eyes, Su Wan signs her name and becomes a plaything in his palm. He uses the cruelest methods to torment her, body and soul, forcing her to remember the past he believes she betrayed him over. Yet when she teeters on the brink of collapse, he can’t help but let a trace of uncontrolled concern show.
As fragments of the truth gradually come together, they learn that she left to protect him, and that beneath his torment lies a deep love he has never confessed. This imprisonment, carried out in the name of hatred, has long since become a shackle neither of them can escape.
Love and pain tear at them again and again, while misunderstandings and truths pile up layer by layer. Can they break free of the cocoon of hatred in this perilous, soul-crushing romance and see the love they have buried deep in their hearts?
