When the truth comes out, her twenty-three years as the Lin family's cherished daughter suddenly begin to count down.
Overnight, she goes from the apple of the Lin family's eye to an awkwardly placed fake heiress. Rumors spread, her best friend fans the flames, and everyone waits to see where she'll end up. Refusing to become a pawn in someone else's interests, Lin Zhixia sets her sights on a gentle, distinguished man at the very top of the power ladder.
Shen Yanci, thirty-one, head of the Shen family, worth tens of billions. The public's opinion of him is frighteningly unanimous: restrained, coolheaded, never loses control, and never lets a woman get close. Yet one night, she delivers herself right to his door.
She thinks it's just a desperate act of self-preservation, a deal trading marriage for freedom. She'll put on a show, he'll play along, and once the storm passes, everything can go back to the way it was.
But she doesn't know that from the moment she approached him in a panic, this seemingly harmless man had already set his sights on her. She thinks she's the one setting a trap, when in fact someone else is far more patient, waiting for her to walk into his arms one step at a time.
After they marry, she thinks he doesn't love her, thinks there's someone else in his heart, and even believes their marriage has been nothing but a mutually beneficial arrangement from the start. Only after she falls for him, becomes pregnant, and leaves with a secret does the man who has always kept his composure finally lose control completely.
Judging from how prosperous the male protagonist is in the early stage, he will definitely be miserable in the later stage.