Seventeen-year-old Su Xiao lives in a carefully woven fairy tale: she's the campus goddess everyone envies, with top grades, a wealthy family, and a handsome, sunny boyfriend. Her parents are devoted to each other, and her family is happy, at least in everyone's eyes. Then she sees the WeChat message on her father's phone that she was never meant to see. From that moment, cracks begin to spread through her perfect world. Even more shocking, her mother has known the truth all along but chose to stay silent. Her boyfriend's love is pure but fragile, unable to bear the weight of the truth. And the "friends" who once flocked around her quietly disappear in the face of gossip.
Only one person reaches out to her: Tang Wan, the loneliest transfer student in school, whose mother works as a cleaner and whose father is in prison. Living at the very bottom of society, this girl tears away Su Xiao's last illusions with a cold-blooded bargain:
"Help me get into the student council, and I'll give you all the evidence of your father's affair. But think carefully, Su Xiao: once you know some truths, there's no going back."
From perfect princess to fallen idol, from innocent dependence to forced maturity, Su Xiao has to relearn the rules of survival amid the ruins of her youth. She must learn to scheme, to be ruthless, and to make cruel choices between family and justice.
This is a battle of growing up with no way back. When the curtain finally falls on her fairy tale, Su Xiao understands at last: there is no prince to rescue the princess, no castle that will stand forever, and no promise of "happily ever after."
For everyone who once believed in fairy tales, but had to learn to be strong in the real world.
