Best actor Shen Jingbing lives in the spotlight but cannot feel any emotions. In order to cure affective agnosia, he launched a cold and precise "drama therapy" and signed the 18th-tier actor Mei Xinyan as a "tool man". Although Mei Xinyan has the ability to read hearts, she only hears various cold echoes from Shen Jingbing's heart. From forced coexistence to boundary testing, Mei Xinyan was forced to cooperate under the contract and sky-high liquidated damages until he broke through the wall of truth in his study that was covered with secret photos of himself. When sincerity quietly sprouts in the precise design, a public announcement of "tool man" pushes Mei Xinyan into the abyss of despair.
Three years later, a young man named Ding Xiaoying, who resembled Mei Xinyan, stepped into Shen Jingbing's world as the new "tool man" with a secret purpose. He calmly dealt with the actor's gradually recovering dependence and the covetousness of all forces. He worked step by step to erode Shen Jingbing's business empire and emotional defense.
However, when Shen Jingbing disappeared in a foreign country and Ding Xiaoying was imprisoned for murder, a larger and colder chess game truly emerged. The mastermind behind the scenes slowly emerged, involving twisted grievances between two generations, stolen family heirlooms, and a heart debt that lasted for many years.
This is not only a story about substitutes, revenge and redemption, but also a cruel torture of "emotion" itself: when love is designed, sincerity is observed, and harm is done in the name of treatment, how to distinguish reality from performance? The two souls, who were initially defined as "tools" and "patients", finally completed the most heart-wrenching confession of each other and even "living" itself under the baptism of blood and truth.
