Shen Zhiyi, a master's graduate in law, takes the initiative to get close to Gu Tingchen, president of the Gu Group and the most dangerous man in Jiangcheng, in order to uncover the truth behind her father's wrongful imprisonment ten years ago.
At twenty-six, he is obsessive, violent, and intensely controlling. The first time they meet, he grips her chin and says, “You look a lot like someone.” She is the seventh replacement for his deceased first love.
She signs a contract to be his stand-in and moves into his glass prison, enduring his madness and possessiveness. But she doesn't know that the man she hates is also the one who has been hurt most deeply. At eight, he witnessed his mother being murdered. He suffers from severe PTSD, uses cruelty to reassure himself that he is loved, and mistakes confinement for protection.
She also doesn't know that her sister, his first love, was killed by her true enemy. And that enemy is inside the Gu family.
As she is torn apart again and again between love and hate, the truth comes to light: the family that destroyed hers was his, and the same person killed his first love.
In court, she personally puts him in the dock. In the delivery room, after giving birth to his child, she disappears.
Two years later, he finds her and their child and gets down on his knees for the first time. “I’m not asking you to forgive me. But I want to learn… how to love you properly.”
This is a story of obsession and redemption. He spent ten years learning how to hate, and now he must spend the rest of his life learning how to love. And she is the only cure for him.
In the end, she chooses to stay. Not because he has changed, but because she finally understands: obsession is not an illness. It is the mark of a child who never learned how to love. And it is her mission to teach him.
A 500,000-word epic of heartbreaking love and tangled fates. Love is the only answer.
