“Dr. Lu, your new patient is here.”
When Lin Xia looks up and sees that familiar yet strange face, the fountain pen in her hand clatters to the floor. Five years have passed. She thought she had buried those memories long ago, but in this moment, they come crashing back.
Lu Chen is just as stunned. He has spent five years searching for her, dreaming of taking revenge on the woman who left without a word. Yet he never imagined that when they met again, she would be his best friend's fiancée. More ironically still, his current girlfriend, Song Wei, is sitting right in front of her, seeking psychological treatment.
Four people, four tangled relationships. Lin Xia has returned with a secret she can't reveal; Lu Chen is fixated on an unfinished revenge; Zhou Yu'an maintains a web of lies beneath his perfect facade; Song Wei is trapped in a pathological dependency she cannot escape.
When the psychologist becomes the patient, when the avenger is consumed by the very hatred that drives him, and when salvation becomes an even deeper wound... In this emotional game with no winners, who will break down first? And who can truly escape this thicket of thorns woven from love and hate?
They are all asking the same question: does loving more deeply mean being destined to hurt more? Perhaps only when every disguise has been torn away and every truth revealed will they understand: some wounds must be torn open completely before they can heal again.
