Shh, Please Touch My Heart

A beautiful, strong, tragic, and vulnerable female lead with poor self-awareness x a two-faced, unhinged male lead with childhood trauma

Zhong Yu's world was chilling and bleak, like a tomb that could hold only one person. Her mental illness followed her like a shadow, and the world had become a vast cage. Trapped inside it, keeping company with corpses and sinking forever into the depths. Until Huo Mingde appeared at a scene where a body had been dumped on a rainy night. Dressed in navy blue, tall and straight, he watched from the shadows for a long time, then ran off to throw up because of the smell of blood, a comically unexpected reaction.

Zhong Yu thought he was nothing like her. She belonged to the darkness, while he belonged to the light.

Until the roommate who had forced her into a predatory loan held a knife to her neck beneath the dormitory building. Zhong Yu swiftly turned and knocked her down, then cut her own arm. When everyone rushed in, she lay on the ground, gasping in pain, and said, "She cut me."

Roommate: "..." You really can make things up!

She watched as her roommate was taken away in a police car. After dropping all her disguises, she was no longer in pain as before. She silently observed everything, expressionless, but then she saw Huo Mingde, who had responded to the call. He was studying her.

Zhong Yu: "!" Oh no, I feel like he's seen through me.

Huo Mingde had asked himself countless times: Why do people have to live? Was it because someone had traded their life to pull him out of the mud, so he couldn't just die? Was it because his uncle, on the verge of death, had asked him to pass on his love to his father, and he had failed?

Was that why he could put on a mask and pretend to be sunny and cheerful, playing the part of a yellow sponge who loved his job, while still being a young heir who could go home and inherit a fortune worth hundreds of millions if he ever quit the police force?

Huo Mingde never imagined that the bond forged by trading one life for another would come back twenty years later. Zhong Yu's arrival made him want to take her hand and honor a promise to protect a life. His life began to divide into a before and after. For the rest of his life, he would help her overcome her illness.

Reader's guide:

1. The cases, city, and characters are fictional. This is entirely an imaginary setting, so please don't associate it with reality.

2. The female lead has Cotard's syndrome and a very poor perception of herself, often feeling that being alive is the same as being dead.

3. The male lead suffered severe trauma as a child. Most of his sunny, optimistic demeanor is an act; he's a true master of disguise.

Theme: Persistent effort will always lead to success.