[Cool, bankrupt heiress x Brooding, ruthless Beijing magnate]
[Obsessive love | Unhinged | Older man | Coercive possession | Chasing his wife | Both leads are each other's one and only]
Everyone in Beijing's elite circles says the head of the Si family is cold by nature and ruthless in his methods, the kind of man who would think nothing of pulling the tendons from his enemies and breaking their bones.
When she was seventeen, Mu Jin slapped him. When they meet again, she can't get away from him fast enough.
Yet through one strange coincidence after another, the man keeps appearing by her side under different identities.
She's frightened and wants to run.
Her ex-boyfriend returns from abroad, asking to get back together.
The next day, Si Yuan calls her on video.
Li Zhe is tied up like a parcel, bound to a pine tree at the edge of a cliff on West Mountain.
Mu Jin breaks into a cold sweat. "What on earth do you want?"
Si Yuan lets out a soft laugh. He aims the car at Li Zhe, resting his foot lightly on the gas. The cliff wind makes his voice hoarse and wild. "Adulterers have been drowned in ponds since ancient times."
"...You're a lunatic!"
Just before the bitter winter New Year, Mu Jin resolutely flies abroad to pursue her doctorate.
She has three years. She's making one enormous gamble.
She bets that after Si Yuan succumbs to family pressure and marries the Shen family's heiress, he'll let her go.
But when she steps off the plane, the man is leaning against the jet bridge, a cigarette between his lips as he advances step by step. The crimson in his dark eyes stains the entire Los Angeles night red.
"Lost your way? Your husband is here to take you home."
Si Yuan was never a good man, not from the beginning.
Her escape only stirs the evil inside him into something more turbulent.
An untamed wildcat's home is a cage.
A golden cage forged long ago, its chains silently clasping her slender ankles.
With the tip of her nose red from crying, she pleads, "Si Yuan, please don't treat me like this."
He bends down and gently kisses away her tears, then tosses the key downstairs. His hoarse voice is like a vengeful ghost crawling out of the underworld. "Too late. I gave you a chance."
