A Bone-Deep Pursuit: The Artifact Restorer and His Cage

Su Xiaoyan, a top cultural relic restorer, restored a shattered Song-dynasty glass cup to its original beauty with her own hands. She thought she could mend the cracks in her lover Shen Mochen's heart, too. Until their engagement banquet, when he smashed the glass cup in front of everyone to protect another woman and accused Su Xiaoyan of being jealous and manipulative.

He imprisoned her in a luxurious villa in the name of love, cutting off all her contact with the outside world. When she tried one last time to mend their relationship by restoring his mother's old painting, all she got in return was deeper suspicion and a brutal “punishment.” A forged piece of evidence accusing her of leaking secrets shattered every last bit of her trust.

While delirious with a high fever, she glimpsed the deepest wound in his family: a curse of control and abuse passed down from one generation to the next. When she woke, she returned the fully restored painting along with his mother's tearstained, blood-written farewell letter. Her gaze was calm as still water. “Shen Mochen, we're even.”

She disappeared completely, finding herself and rebuilding her career in an ancient town in Jiangnan. Meanwhile, he descended into madness in a world without her. By the time he finally cleared her name, recognized his true feelings, and realized he'd become the very thing he hated most, she had already emerged renewed and radiant.

The desperate struggle to win her back began. The first lesson he learned was this: some things, once broken, stay broken. For the rest of his life, he would have to learn how to love someone with genuine respect and by letting her go free, rather than possessing or hurting her.

This is a story about breaking and healing, control and freedom, trauma and growth. Watch a cultural relic restorer use her expertise to restore antiques, and her clarity of mind to restore herself. Watch a heaven-blessed heir learn, clumsily, the truth of love in a blazing inferno: to love someone is to let her freely become herself.