On the Lantern Festival in the 15th year of Yong'an, a nine-year-old orphan girl from the Shen family picked up a boy covered in wounds in the lantern market. He gave him a rabbit lantern, half a piece of candy, and the words "Don't be afraid, I'll protect you."
The boy said nothing. But he carved her name into his bones.
Ten years later, the Shen family collapsed overnight, and both adoptive parents died. Shen Que's engagement was canceled in public by her fiancé Gu Huaizhi in the name of "restraint". She knelt at the door of Gu's Mansion and begged to be taken in. A basin of cold water was poured down from the embroidery building——
The person who splashed water was Gu Yuan. The "crazy bastard" of the Gu family who was locked up in the backyard.
He leaned on the window lattice and smiled: "Sister, your clothes are soaked. Come in and change them?"
Everyone in the house felt that he was humiliating her. Only Shen Que understood - he was saving her.
On the wedding night, Shen Que tore off Gu Yuan's disguise. There is an old rabbit lamp hidden in the secret room of his study, wrapped with red string, exactly like the one she gave away ten years ago.
An avenger pretending to be crazy, and an orphan girl pretending to be good. Two knives hidden in the dark, stabbing at the same enemy. He thought he was using her for revenge and that she knew all the truth before he did.
On the day when the Gu family collapsed, Shen Que packed up and left. Gu Yuan blocked the door and shed tears in front of her for the first time: "Shen Que, you said you would protect me."
Later, he knelt in front of the ruins of the Shen family's old house and kowtowed three times to the memorial tablets of her adoptive parents.
"I took advantage of her. But in this life, I will pay with my life."
He was a sparrow put into a cage by her own hands. Later, the cage door opened, but he refused to leave. Two knives, one to stab the enemy and the other to stab yourself. The moment the swords clashed, they finally admitted - we are not each other's salvation, we are each other's prisoner.
