Surrendering to Desire

[The Ice Queen Falls from Her Pedestal + Breaking Up and Getting Back Together + He Chases Her After the Breakup + She Chases Him After the Breakup + She Gives Up Chasing Him Halfway, Then He Breaks Down and Goes Mad, Crawling Through the Shadows] * When Li Man was hounded with nowhere to turn by the mad, disabled eldest young master of the Duan family, she met Zhou Jinchen. Determined to break out of her predicament, she set her heart on winning him and making him hers. People warned her that Zhou Jinchen had someone forbidden in his heart, and that he could never love her. But Li Man loved him almost obsessively, falling completely under his spell. She thought she could be indifferent to anything, until she saw the favoritism and indulgence Zhou Jinchen showed another woman, things she had never received from him. In that instant, she suddenly understood everything. The day she asked to break up, she made a scene, packed her suitcase, and prepared to walk away. She said, “If he'll never love me, let alone marry me, then I should let go and give him back to someone else.” Only when she finally walked away did he reveal his true nature. No one knew that she had long been the desire and greed buried deep in his bones, a craving no medicine could cure. * The deeply devoted can become the most heartless in the end, while the one who seems most heartless is actually the most devoted, and the one who loses most completely. Later, on a dark night when they met again, the man walked toward her from the shadows, eyes red as he accused her: “Li Man, you're the one without a heart.” “Manman, please turn around and look at me, will you?” “I'm begging you...”