To pay off her birth family’s debts, Su Li personally gave up her young love and married into a wealthy family, becoming a caged songbird kept by He Tingzhou.
He was obsessive and sinister, with a possessiveness bordering on madness. His cold treatment and endless confinement turned the rest of her life into a sunless prison.
Four years into their marriage, she had grown numb and resigned, enduring everything and going along with whatever came. She thought her life had nothing left but desolation and settling for less.
Then, in the lobby of Jiangcheng Branch, an unexpected reunion shattered her lifeless existence.
Lu Xun, once an impoverished boy, had made it to the top, becoming a leading new name in Shanghai’s investment banking world, distinguished, aloof, and high above everyone else.
But by his side now stood a gentle, poised young woman from an equally prominent family.
An old love had returned, but everything had changed.
Su Li retreated at every turn, doing everything she could to avoid suspicion and keep her distance, never daring to cross the line.
But no one knew that through all those late nights over the past four years, every bit of her patience and pain had been kept for the lingering hope she still held for him.
She deliberately kept her distance; he deliberately acted cold.
Everyone thought Lu Xun had long since grown tired of her, a woman covered in mud.
Only the countless moments when they pulled away from each other betrayed the truth:
Though he watched with cold detachment, time and again she broke through his defenses until his reason crumbled and he abandoned every last boundary.
Her deranged husband saw through everything, keeping her confined by force and tightening the pressure at every turn, determined to lock her by his side forever.
“Su Li, you’ll never get away from me in this lifetime.”
On one side was an obsessive controller who had destroyed her to the core and would never let go.
On the other was the unforgettable love of her youth, who loved her to the bone yet held himself back in silence.
A marriage in desperate straits, an old flame rekindled, everyone caught in a tug-of-war, and a suffocating four-way love triangle.
She was trapped in the abyss, but in the end, she couldn’t help but throw herself into ruin for the only moonlight she had ever known.
