[Mind Reading + Ascetic Powerhouse + Winning Her Back + Playing Dumb to Catch the Tiger]
Overnight, Shu Ling falls from being the capital's brightest genius jewelry designer to a disgraced heiress everyone avoids.
Her father is wrongfully imprisoned, her mother is gravely ill in the ICU, and with nowhere else to turn, she knocks on that man's door.
The man she publicly broke off her engagement with three years ago: Fu Siheng.
He speaks coldly. "Sign this agreement and become mine."
She signs.
Everyone says Third Master Fu keeps her by his side to avenge the humiliation she dealt him three years ago.
Once he gets tired of her, he'll throw her away.
Shu Ling thinks so too.
Until one day, she discovers she can hear his thoughts.
His face is cold as ice, and he says, "She's just a plaything I keep around for amusement."
But in his mind, he's thinking:
[...Why has she lost weight again? Is she not eating properly...?]
[...I want to keep her locked by my side, but she'll hate me...]
[...Baby... don't blame me...]
