The political climate of the 1960s is turbulent. Xu Zhimei, a capitalist heiress who has returned from studying abroad, marries Lu Xuezheng, a man wielding immense power, to ensure her family’s safety.
She knows this marriage, entered into with an ulterior motive, has never contained even the slightest warmth, yet she still carries some hope.
Until, on their wedding night, Lu Xuezheng proposes that they divorce three years later.
Her heart dies completely.
She faces harassment from his childhood sweetheart and fiancée, as well as the cold disdain of her own younger sister.
Amid endless neglect and torment, she suffers devastating wounds to both body and mind.
With her heart reduced to ashes, Xu Zhimei resolutely asks for a divorce, seeking only to leave him...
But Lu Xuezheng, once cold and distant, suddenly loses control. Refusing to let go, he tears apart all propriety and rules, embarking on a possessive, domineering campaign to keep her by force.
One day, in a place where no one knows them, Lu Xuezheng forcibly turns her face toward him:
“Meigui, no one is here. No one will find out about you.”
He confines her body, locks down her freedom, and uses all his power to keep her at his side, making amends through every possible means, clinging to her and pressing closer step by step.
The type of forced love in period novels is rarely seen, so it should be added to the bookshelf first.