When he was three years old, his mother ran away with an actor. From then on, Mu Yu never left the house again.
Her father, Mu Zhennan, started to take concubines like crazy. Each of the five aunts looked like her mother - the eyes were the same, the mouth was the same, the look was the same, and the posture was the same. He was looking for a substitute, a shadow of the woman who ran away.
And she is the biggest substitute. Because the longer she grows, the more she looks like her mother.
The way her father looked at her changed. It was no longer a father looking at his daughter, but a man looking at a woman. The way the eldest brother looked at her also changed, and the way the second brother looked at her also changed. They were all looking at another person through her.
She was locked up in a deep house, wearing a cheongsam of her mother's favorite color, and learning the music, chess, calligraphy and painting that her mother was good at.
She is the legitimate daughter of this family, but she can't even read a book or leave a door. She is a living statue, a breathing stand-in, a collectible locked in a golden wire cage.
When she was fifteen years old, at her father's birthday party, a strange man saw her across the garden.
With just one glance, she knew that this man was different from everyone else. Because the way he looked at her was looking at her. Not looking at his mother's shadow, not looking at someone's substitute, but looking at her - Mu Yuxin.
But this glance resulted in a severe beating from his father.
"Why show your face? Why do you want other men to see you?"
The whip fell, and she huddled in the dark room, covered in blood, but feeling sober as never before -
She hated this face. She hates this family. She hated every man who looked through her.
She wants to run away.
Even if you die outside, it is better than living as someone else's shadow.
