Lu Zhiling went blind at fifteen, and her family was destroyed. Her foster family treated her as a bargaining chip, scheming to send her to Bo Wang, the gloomy-tempered eldest son of the Bo family, one of Jiangnan’s most powerful households, rumored to bring death to his wives. After an unexpected night together, she became pregnant with his child. To survive among the wolves and tigers around her and protect the baby in her womb, Lu Zhiling began an elaborate performance: she pretended to be a blind girl who had fallen in love with Bo Wang at first sight and would never waver, doing everything she could to “love” him. Bo Wang had been kidnapped and gone missing at the age of five, then endured ten years of darkness before being found. Betrayal had long since eaten away at his heart. At first, he saw her advances as yet another trap with ulterior motives, responding coldly and even testing her with deliberate cruelty. Yet beneath the seemingly clumsy but persistent warmth she showed him day after day, the ice around his heart began to crack. He went from tolerating her presence to developing a possessive obsession with her. Just as Lu Zhiling thought she had finally secured her footing and began longing to escape the contract that had started with a lie, Bo Wang’s madness erupted: he cornered her with a car at the edge of a cliff, then begged her to stay in the pouring rain. Amid their fierce push and pull, the truth and their true feelings came to light: she was the childhood fiancée he had missed out on, and the “gardenia girl” who had given him his last bit of warmth when he was near death. On a thorny path where lies and truth intertwined, two broken souls ultimately found their deepest redemption in each other.
