In their three years of marriage, Ruan Qingtang was a shadow locked in Fu Shenyuan's gilded cage, a shoddy replacement for his first love, Wen Yining.
He remembered that Wen Yining liked her milk tea with just a third of the usual sugar and little ice, but couldn't remember that she was allergic to mangoes. He rejected a contract worth hundreds of millions for his first love's younger sister, Wen Yi'an, yet when his wife had a fever of 39 degrees, all he said was, "Drink more water." She poured her heart into making him three years of pork rib soup, but on their wedding anniversary, he brought another woman home and made her clean the guest room and serve them tea.
Then, late one night, she stumbled upon his will: his entire trillion-yuan fortune was to go to his deceased first love. Their three years of marriage were worth only three million in "wages," and she wouldn't get so much as a share of their marital property.
Just as her heart turned to ash, she discovered she was carrying his child. The child he'd longed for over five years, but wanted to have only with his first love, was growing inside the belly of his "shadow."
At daybreak, she blocked every way to contact her, packed half a suitcase of old belongings and her paints, and vanished without a trace, leaving only a plain wedding band and a room full of cold, mocking memories.
After Ruan Qingtang left, Fu Shenyuan completely lost his mind.
