When Wen Shuyu first got together with Xi Yuan, she was merely the daughter of a servant in the Xi family.
Knowing how much trouble their difference in status could bring, she was the one who insisted they keep their relationship secret.
Xi Yuan was a proud, highborn young man, arrogant and impossible to tame.
He never cared what outsiders thought or said, but for love, he indulged Wen Shuyu and agreed to her request.
Then disaster struck the Xi family, and Xi Yuan came to hate Wen Shuyu with all his heart.
Wen Shuyu thought, So the Xi Yuan who had always been so gentle and considerate with me has a side this violent, too.
After she left, that side became the nightmare that haunted her for four years.
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When they met again, Wen Shuyu appeared at Xi Yuan's engagement party with someone else.
Halfway through the banquet, she was forcibly taken away and locked inside a room that belonged to Xi Yuan alone.
When Xi Yuan finally confronted her after four years, he said, “Do you really think you can escape this time?”
The bird that had flown away was caged once more. Xi Yuan thought Wen Shuyu would obediently do as she was told, letting him take whatever he wanted and toy with her as he pleased.
If he couldn't be happy, then neither would Wen Shuyu.
Until the little boy, whose features resembled his own, looked at him with nothing but loathing for his biological father.
“Mom, he treats you badly. I don't want him to be my dad.”
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Later, Xi Yuan was invited to Wen Shuyu's wedding to another man as the Xi family's decision-maker.
He watched her onstage, happy with her new love and their child, a family of three.
In unbearable agony, Xi Yuan forcibly dragged Wen Shuyu away from the wedding, just as he had when they met again, and locked her back in that gilded cage.
He regretted everything, begging in agony.
“Love me one more time. Please.”
