Urban, realistic, lawyer romance, a regretful pursuit of an ex-wife, angst before sweetness.
After three years of marriage, Chen Dan is the least noticeable live-in son-in-law in the Su family.
His mother-in-law thinks he is going nowhere, his relatives laugh at him for living off his wife, and his wife, Su Qingxue, sees him as a burden her grandfather forced on her on his deathbed. Every day, he cooks, mops the floor, fixes the plumbing, then waits late into the night for a woman who never even looks at him to come home.
Three years. More than a thousand days and nights.
Until one day, he places a signed divorce agreement on the dining table.
Su Qingxue gives him just one word: “Fine.”
No explanation, no argument, not even a second glance.
At last, Chen Dan understands that the cruelest thing in the world is not hatred. It is living with someone for three years and never being seen by them.
He leaves without asking for a thing.
A month later, the legal world of Tiannan City is shaken: the “Ghost Hand” lawyer Chen Dan, who vanished without a trace three years ago, has returned.
His first case leaves one of the industry’s top ten lawyers utterly crushed.
His first move is to attend an industry reception with his former star partner, Qin Kexin, on his arm. He gives his ex-wife a slight nod and says politely, “Good evening, Ms. Su.”
Su Qingxue’s hand begins to tremble around her wineglass.
She digs out a contract Chen Dan revised for her three years ago and realizes that the document she had tossed into a drawer without even reading could have put the expensive legal counsel she employs now to shame.
She finds an old newspaper. The front-page headline reads: “‘Ghost Hand’ Chen Dan: At 28, He Changed the Rules of Commercial Litigation.”
For three years, she never knew what her husband did for a living
