Radio host Shen Que, who listens to the most secret thoughts of the city at night every day, is calm and distant, which is the armor of his profession. On the eve of his fiancée's return to China, he was entrusted with receiving his cousin Lu Ling, a married woman with a unique temperament and a story hidden in her eyes.
At first, this was just an ordinary friendship between landlords. However, Lu Ling, in the late-night phone calls again and again, as a stranger who confided in him, revealed the wounds of his youth: dependence in trouble, betrayal by strong men, and fruitless and intense entanglement with another man (He Yan). Her story is like a key, accidentally opening the crack under Shen Que's calm surface.
In the vacuum of his fiancée's absence, and under the surface of Lu Ling's stable marriage, a dangerous and hot attraction quietly grows. The 24-year-old Shen was deeply captured by the complex and fragile beauty of the 32-year-old Lu Ling, while Lu Ling once again felt the familiar and thrilling "not satisfied" and longing in the almost divine and perfect love given by her husband Yu Zhiyi.
This relationship is a dance on the edge of a cliff. Lu Ling's husband Yu Zhiyi is keenly aware of this, but chooses to swallow the bitter pill alone with silent dignity and tolerance; Shen Que's fiancée Ye Ning returns as scheduled, with dangers lurking beneath her innocent smile. When family affection, marriage, morality and passionate desire collide fiercely, a fatal loss of control will eventually push everyone into an irreversible situation.
Purpose: This book aims to explore the complex spectrum of contemporary intimate relationships: the tug-of-war between morality and desire, the paradox between reason and emotion, and the eternal questioning of the definition of "perfection."