[Two male leads + devoted couple + obsessive, coercive love + the beloved who returned from abroad + happy ending]
Five years ago, as Lu Moran left, Xie Ciyuan's heart-wrenching pleas rang out behind him: “Please don't go. Don't leave me.”
He didn't look back. Not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't.
The flight was headed for a trap his father had set under the pretense of getting him treatment.
And after that night, Xie Ciyuan, left behind, was completely shattered.
He numbed himself with work and dragged the Xie family from a second-rate company to the peak of its industry.
Is five years enough to forget someone? Xie Ciyuan's answer was no.
Then, three months ago, he saw that familiar face on the fight card. The person in the photo had grown thinner, and the light in his eyes had gone out.
He had someone investigate. He learned that Lu Moran had just returned to the country. He didn't reach out, only arranging for fights to be sent his way regularly.
He couldn't say what he was waiting for: a chance, an explanation, or a reunion.
It was just that Lu Moran had never once come looking for him.
Three months later, Lu Moran faced Gu Kun, who had survived fourteen straight fights in the cage without a loss. With his ribs aching and his right eye swollen, Lu Moran finally knocked him out with a single punch.
Amid the crowd's roar, Xie Ciyuan rose from the stands and walked down clapping against the light. “It's been five years. You look a lot easier on the eyes like this, all beaten up, than when you walked away without looking back.”
Under the lights of the ruined fight arena, one man risked his life in the ring to pay for medical bills, while the other, outwardly scheming and unhinged, had never truly left the airport where they parted five years ago.
Their bruising fights were only the beginning. What could really destroy them was the truth, delayed by five years, and the old wounds in both their hearts that had never healed.
