When Gao Xinrui was twelve, a car accident took the lives of her parents and younger brother.
She hurt herself and struggled with unstable emotions. It took a year away from school before she could barely return to a normal life. From then on, she lived with her grandparents and her second uncle's family. Everyone in the family said she was crazy and insisted she see a therapist regularly. Her grandfather was her legal guardian. What she feared most was being sent to a mental hospital one day and never getting out.
She didn't dare resist. She took her medication, saw the doctor, and went along with every arrangement made "for her own good." When her family told her to get engaged to Lei Jun, she agreed.
But on the eve of their engagement, Lei Jun left her alone at a club for the sake of his cousin, Gao Xinyue.
Three drinks, one out-of-control night. She had nowhere left to go, and no way to turn back.
She was afraid that if she had another episode one day, her family would still hold custody over her, and she might never leave the mental hospital. So she sought out a stranger she had only met a few times, hoping to secure an uncertain future.
"If you don't have someone you're planning to marry, could you marry me?"
He agreed.
"You aren't short of money, so I don't have to worry about you scheming against me for it."
"Anyone else would be out of the question. But you can. You'll understand someday."
They were reading different scripts, yet in the same scene, little by little, they began to take it all seriously.
Those who wronged her would pay, bit by bit. Everything they owed her, she would take back.
