[A Broken Relationship That Can’t Be Mended | Coercive Possessiveness | Deeply Painful Romance | The Long Road to Winning Her Back]
A seemingly mild-mannered, refined, yet obsessive and sinister man in power × a cool-headed, clear-eyed university literature professor
When she has nowhere else to turn, Song Wancheng becomes Lu Jin’s wife under a marriage contract.
Looking down at her, he warns, “Sign it, and don’t expect anything you have no right to.”
Those three years of marriage are filled with grievances and silences she swallows alone. She learns not to love, and not to care.
On the day they divorce, Lu Jin doesn’t even show up. He just has his assistant deliver a check.
Song Wancheng refuses it and walks away without hesitation. She earns her doctorate, joins a university, and becomes its youngest Chinese literature professor. Without him, her life is better.
Two years after parting, they meet again at a cultural lecture she’s giving.
They pretend not to know each other in public, but behind closed doors he keeps pressing her.
Lu Jin goes mad. When she chats and laughs with her students, he loses control in front of everyone and grabs her wrist. When she goes on a date, he waits outside her apartment building late at night, eyes bloodshot. “Wancheng, I regret it.”
Song Wancheng can only laugh at him. The woman he rejected is now supposed to believe his act of devotion?
When he catches a fever after getting soaked in the rain, she hands him medicine and closes the door. When he’s hospitalized after a car accident, she asks someone else to check on him and never visits herself. He kneels before her with a diamond ring, hoarsely begging her to remarry him.
Song Wancheng looks down at him, her voice flat. “Lu Jin, you look pathetic right now.”
She turns and leaves without looking back once.
Only later does Lu Jin learn that she stopped hating him long ago. Hate requires feelings, and she doesn’t even hate him anymore.
The woman he lost is gone for good.
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