The day the old harbor redevelopment project on Linlan's south bank got underway, Lin Jianwei met Gu Chenglan for the first time.
Standing at the heart of Linlan's power, the man lost himself as he looked at her in front of everyone.
People said she looked like an old acquaintance of the Gu family, like the person who should have vanished long ago into the old harbor's past.
Even Gu Chenglan admitted it: at first, he had approached her only because of that uncanny resemblance.
But Lin Jianwei didn't believe in fate, and she refused to be anyone's substitute.
Only when she followed the trail of an old newspaper, a fragment of surveillance footage, and a birth certificate with no record of its existence did she discover that what had truly been stolen wasn't someone else's love, but her own life.
Ten years ago, a harbor district accident buried a girl's name.
Ten years later, a falsified identity, a truth everyone had agreed to keep silent about, and the respectability an entire family had worked so hard to maintain were all beginning to crack before her eyes.
She wasn't a substitute.
She was the person everyone had once conspired to erase.
