When she chose to stay, she thought she was saving a down-on-his-luck man.
Xu Yan transmigrates into a novel as Gu Huaijin’s contract wife. Faced with her “bankrupt” husband, she decides to stand by him and use her wits to hold together their crumbling home.
What he doesn’t know is that her staying is the one unpredictable variable in his carefully laid plans.
Gu Huaijin has long since woven a vast web around them. His supposed bankruptcy is just a disguise in his fight against the fate imposed by the “Heavenly Dao.” He thinks he’s protecting her, never realizing she’s already become the brightest light in his dark plans.
A charade in which they both move toward each other. A battle to overturn their fates.
Each is protecting the other in their own way. Only when the truth comes out do they realize they’ve long been soulmates, comrades, and lovers.
They meet at their lowest point, thinking they’re saving each other, never realizing the other is hiding an entire world.
