[Mature men and women + male homewrecker + morally gray cast + mystery + rural setting + serial murders]
Deng Rui, a village schoolteacher, married the bachelor everyone in town looked down on.
Years into the marriage, she lived like a widow, sleepless night after night. Their marriage had long since become an empty shell.
Beneath the village’s calm surface, dark currents surged.
Tragedy followed tragedy along the Putuo River, with single men being killed one after another. The entire town was gripped by fear.
She lived in terror every day, until one day she stumbled upon the secret her husband had kept hidden.
More horrifying still, the people closest to her all concealed terrifying truths.
The gentle, clean-cut town doctor kept showing her kindness and quietly watching over her.
Her taciturn husband behaved strangely and left one clue after another.
And her usually overbearing younger brother sent chills down her spine.
Everyone was lying. Everyone had secrets.
She thought she was merely an unfortunate wife, unaware that she had long been swept into a deadly whirlpool.
When the truth tore away the disguises, she finally realized
The gentlest person was the most willing to sacrifice.
The closest person was the most dangerous.
And she, a flower who seemed so fragile, would eventually don armor and become invulnerable!
