With graduate school almost behind her, Xin Yuan is forced to abandon her studies and return home to save her family business after her father is suddenly sent to prison.
The company is drowning in debt, so she sells herself to Gu Zhoubai for fifty million.
For two years.
In public, people respectfully call her President Xin.
But in places no one knows about, those two words are nothing but endless humiliation.
In front of Gu Zhoubai, she has no dignity. She is just one of his canaries, there for him to toy with as he pleases...
When Xin Yuan learns that Gu Zhoubai is about to get married, she asks to end their relationship.
“I can be your lover, but I won’t be the woman who breaks up someone else’s marriage.”
Gu Zhoubai clawed his way to the top over the bodies of his own family. He is domineering and cold, and by the rules of the game he made, only he gets to call a stop.
His eyes narrow dangerously as he sneers at the canary suddenly beating her wings in defiance:
“Go ahead and try!”
Xin Yuan does try, and the consequences are more than she can bear.
But her principles are unshakable.
Gu Zhoubai watches helplessly as she smashes herself until she is covered in blood. For some reason, his own heart begins to ache for her.
Even the most heartless man can have a heart after all.
But Xin Yuan doesn’t want his love!
