[Rental-apartment life + everyday slice of life + contrasting personalities + mutual firsts + hints of coercive love later on + insecure, brooding love-struck hero]
The night her awareness awakens, Lin Zhiyi is breaking up.
In the original novel, breaking up with Fu Shibai gets her locked away, where he forces her into a twisted romance.
Looking around the rundown rental, Lin Zhiyi falls silent. There’s barely enough room to imprison a cat or dog in here.
Thinking about how her story ends, she shudders. In that chase-the-wife novel, she is Fu Shibai’s evil ex-girlfriend, a disposable supporting character. She hides her identity, spends all his money, dates two men at once, and even causes his car accident. What she doesn’t know is that the other man is a fake heir, while Fu Shibai is the real heir who was switched at birth. Once the truth comes out, she is struck by heaven-sent justice, thrown into the sea, and drowned.
Lin Zhiyi is afraid of dying.
She decides not to break up after all. She’ll keep her head down and follow the plot until Fu Shibai meets his destined love, then slip away without a sound.
It’s a cowardly plan, but it’ll keep her alive.
.
Fu Shibai thinks Lin Zhiyi has changed.
She no longer likes spending his money or touching his abs, and she even insists on sleeping in separate beds. She’s so obedient and frugal that she might as well be invisible.
He panics inside and works himself to the bone to make money, silently begging her to look his way just once.
But she still leaves.
Fu Shibai can no longer suppress the possessiveness buried in his nature. He chases her overseas, locks her in a private villa, and demands with bloodshot eyes, “Why didn’t you keep deceiving me? I’m rich now. Just say you love me, and I’ll give you everything...”
