During a heavy rain when she was seven years old, Su Jiu handed an umbrella to a strange boy.
She didn't know that this act of kindness illuminated his darkness for the next fourteen years and became a spell that trapped her throughout her life.
Fourteen years later, they met again on the campus of University A.
He is the highly respected young professor Qin Shi, gentle and elegant, with a bright future.
She is Su Jiu, a new student who has just entered school. She is ordinary and looks forward to the future.
He recognized her—the light that illuminated his despairing childhood.
But she forgot about him - it was just a vague rainy day in childhood.
Qin Shi's "repayment" began with meticulous care: individual academic guidance, "accidental encounters" in the office late at night, and just the right gifts. Su Jiu was flattered and thought she would meet a good teacher.
Until that cross-border text message, until that drowsy cup of tea, until she discovered that her borrowing records and life trajectory were all under his silent gaze.
Until he used her future, her boyfriend's future, and her parents' peace as bargaining chips, and said softly: "Stay with me."
Su Jiu began to struggle, trying to escape from this web woven in the name of "love".
And Qin Shi, this genius who walked on the edge of morality, calmly tightened every thread.
"I've been looking for you for fourteen years," he whispered in her ear, his breath hot and paranoid, "This time, you can't run away."
