Seven years ago, Shen Yan personally pushed his childhood sweetheart, Lin Zhi, toward his best friend, Lu Yan. The reason was a marriage alliance agreement drawn up by the Shen family. He didn't even have the right to resist. Seven years later, he is Linjiang's most elegant gallery owner, and a madman who has spent seven years secretly weaving a web of love.
Lin Zhi thinks Shen Yan is simply the most courteous friend in her boyfriend's circle. He remembers that she's allergic to pollen but never says a word. He just happens to bring her stomach-warming porridge when she works late, and with his gentlest smile, tells her, "Lu Yan's been busy lately. Let me take you to the art exhibition in his place." But she doesn't know that every "coincidence" is precisely calculated, and every "comfort" is a deadly trap. From a suggestive photo doctored in Photoshop to a sudden financial crisis at Lu Yan's company, Shen Yan uses capital, connections, and an artistic intuition that understands her better than she understands herself to dismantle and rebuild her world, inch by inch.
Until, beneath the gallery lights on a rainy night, the gentle, jade-like man grabs her wrist, his eyes terrifyingly wild. "Lu Yan was just lucky enough to meet you first. And I... was lucky enough to still be alive."
When Lin Zhi finally sees the whole truth, Shen Yan has already prepared his final move: he will give up a fortune worth hundreds of billions and threaten the entire Shen family with a legendary masterpiece said to be priceless. What he has spent seven years laying out was never a scheme, but a cage from which she has no escape.
And the saddest thing is that she discovers she actually wants to step inside that cage.
