Wen Ying had no idea why she had caught the attention of the untouchable young master from Jingzhou.
By the time she realized how serious things were, the man had sent her an outrageously expensive luxury diamond ring.
She went to return it. At the imposing, mysterious Skylark Manor, Pei Yan stood tall and straight, amused as he teased a bird trapped in a golden cage.
Without changing expression, Wen Ying set down the ring box. Her clear, firm voice rang out: "Mr. Pei, please show some restraint. I'm getting engaged next month."
Pei Yan said nothing and let her leave.
*
That night, Wen Ying received a call from an unknown number.
Her boyfriend's desperate cries for help came through the phone.
Right after them came Pei Yan's low, imposing voice: "Come find me."
Wen Ying hurried to the manor.
In the eerily cold basement, her boyfriend was covered in bruises, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth as someone pinned him to the floor, leaving him unable to move.
She begged Pei Yan to let them go.
"You don't want him to die?" Pei Yan curled his lips in a faint smile. Unhurriedly, he knelt on one knee and wiped away the rain splashed on Wen Ying's ankle.
"Then break up with him. Be with me."
*
After that night, Wen Ying could never escape Pei Yan again.
She hated him to the bone and swore she would never give him her heart, not in a million years.
But later, when Pei Yan lay dying in a pool of blood, she felt a strange flicker of fear.
Tears rolled uncontrollably down her cheeks.
For the first time, joy appeared in Pei Yan's lifeless eyes. His bloodied hand slowly lifted, but he feared staining her dress, so it stopped in midair. He struggled to whisper, "Yingying..."
"So you can be sad for me after all."
[He built the cage that imprisoned her with his own hands. He never asked her to take pity on him or give him even a little of her heart. All he wanted was for them never to be separated, in this life or any other.]
A deranged villain x a stubborn, resilient woman
Forcing love and taking by force
Theme: Keep striving to live
