Reborn as a lame princess destined for a tragic end in a book, Lin Xiaowan opens her eyes to a deadly predicament.
The original owner trusted a scoundrel, gave him everything, and met a grisly end.
To escape that fate, she feigns madness and a limp, carefully plotting each move as she exposes the hypocrite and cuts off unwanted suitors herself.
She only wants to change her fate in peace and stay away from every character in the story.
But unexpectedly, the mysterious Shopkeeper Shen, whom the original owner casually rescued two years ago and who should have quietly disappeared, has been watching her from the shadows all along.
He hides his identity, posing as an ordinary merchant, and lies low in Lin Country for three years, all for the chance to see her once.
The world mocks her as broken and deranged, but he alone dotes on her obsessively, drawing ever closer.
She thinks she’s the one moving the pieces and breaking out of the game.
Only after falling deep into the web of tenderness he has spun does she realize that from the moment they first met, she was never going to escape his grasp.
