After the Su family went bankrupt, Su Nian was forced to sign a contract and became Shen Zhiheng’s caged bird. He obsessively kept her trapped in his villa because her face looked just like his beloved Su Wanqing’s, yet he hated her for supposedly “causing her death.” Day after day, he tormented her, every word a knife to the heart.
“You’re just a stand-in. Don’t expect me to have any real feelings for you.” He smashed her painting supplies and the keepsakes her mother had left her, withheld the money she needed to save her seriously ill mother, and trampled her dignity with icy contempt.
She endured it in silence, hiding her many wounds, because the other person held Su Wanqing’s secret. If it came out, her parents would be ruined beyond recovery. Then a photo from an island appeared, and the supposedly dead beloved was about to return. Su Nian’s very existence had become the biggest obstacle.
“Get rid of this child. You don’t deserve to bear my child.” When he flung an abortion consent form in front of her, Su Nian’s heart finally died. The moment she began hemorrhaging on the operating table, she vanished with her heart in pieces.
Shen Zhiheng searched for her like a madman, but in the corner where she kept her paintings, he discovered the truth. Every painting showed his profile. Deep in a drawer, locked away, was an old candy wrapper he had given her when they were young. The jade fragment he had always thought belonged to Su Wanqing was engraved with the character “Nian.”
“Su Nian, come back. I’ll give you my life.” He smashed Su Wanqing’s portrait and sold off his assets to atone, but all he saw was Su Nian with her arm linked through someone else’s, her gaze calm and unruffled.
In this tortured romance that began with confinement, was he the one who trapped her, or had he long ago been tightly bound by the web of love he wove himself? When the beloved’s lies are exposed, can his love, come too late, melt her frozen heart
