This was a "betrayal" planned by the wife as a last gift to her husband. Lin Tang became his mirror, reflecting his carefully designed hypocrisy; and Lu Zheng had to personally tear down all the fortresses in the first half of his life and admit on the ruins——
The thing he had been looking for for twenty years was never anywhere else.
Reading Guide
The process was sober and restrained, and there was no bloodshed. The male protagonist is not a scumbag. This is a long treatment about "how to learn to love". It involves a lot of psychological descriptions and architectural metaphors, so those who don't like to take things slow should be warned.
Concept: All desires are lack, and redemption itself is the greatest desire