Lu Xixi, a minor internet celebrity barely on the map, is vain and materialistic, always looking for a way to climb higher. At twenty-two, she stumbled across a drunk young man in a bar: a rising star on China's national table tennis team, suspended after smashing his racket and mocked by the entire internet.
She recognized him at a glance, and saw his worth just as quickly.
After one wild night, Lu Xixi had planned to treat it as a shrewd investment. She never expected him to cling to her like a madman. The gentle, restrained genius everyone else knew revealed a different side around her: obsessive, unhinged, and fiercely possessive. He gave her money, status, and a ticket into the elite circles she could never have entered on her own. He had only one condition: she was never allowed to run away.
Lu Xixi carefully calculated every gain and loss, convinced she was the one coming out ahead in their relationship. Until one day, she realized that the look in his eyes had never been simple affection.
It was the absolute certainty of a hunter who had sighted his prey and would never let go.
She wanted to ride his coattails to the top, never knowing he had already built a cage for her.
