A Heart Set on Redemption

[A people-pleasing heroine with a split personality x a seemingly gentle but actually gloomy, controlling hero]

After years of being put down by her parents, Ji Xunyi grew timid and submissive, developing a people-pleasing personality.

After graduating, she hid away in a cemetery and became a groundskeeper, hoping to live out the rest of her life in peace.

Then, at twenty-four, her parents pressured her into marrying her former middle-school deskmate, Qi Shu, whom she hadn't seen in years.

Qi Shu was handsome, talented, and gentle. For a while, Ji Xunyi thought she had finally found salvation.

But after they married, he seemed to become a different person.

Before the wedding, he said he would support her career. Afterward, he quit her job for her without asking.

Before the wedding, he accepted all her flaws. Afterward, he gave her the silent treatment again and again over trivial things.

Ji Xunyi finally saw clearly: Qi Shu had never been her salvation. He was just another cage.

She wanted to escape, but had no idea how.

Thankfully, the protective alter personality she had developed at seventeen in response to her pain always appeared when she was on the verge of breaking down, helping her find a way out and stand her ground.

With her alter's guidance, Ji Xunyi began to rediscover herself and reconsider her marriage to Qi Shu...

At twenty-six, Qi Shu met Ji Xunyi again. He thought it was fate, so he did everything he could to marry her. At last, he married the woman he'd always dreamed of, and then...

Theme: Loving yourself is the best salvation