Miss Jiang, Mr. Shen Wants to Know If You Have a Heart at All

It took me many years to understand that there is someone in this world whom you think you are saving, when in truth, he is the one forgiving you. We met according to his careful plan. From then on, I was his caged canary in a villa, and he was my gloomy, violent, and unpredictable benefactor. No one knows where love begins, or where it ends. It was boundless, just like his hatred for me. I hated this bleak, hopeless stretch of time, never knowing that it would turn out to be the best days of our lives. Fate never let me go, nor did it ever show him mercy. When we met again, everything had changed, and we were both broken beyond repair. The man who had once been arrogant and proud now humbled himself to the dust, asking me again and again, “In all these years, was there ever even one brief moment when you loved me?”