Yu Ting was cheated on. His ex-girlfriend Ran Xue fell for someone else abroad and decided to spend her life with a French woman. But the Yu and Ran families had long arranged a marriage alliance, a matter of great importance. The Yu patriarch issued an ultimatum: if Yu Ting wanted to inherit the family fortune, he couldn’t break the contract. — Ran Ling, Ran Xue’s older sister and the eldest daughter of the Ran family, was a true Jiangnan beauty—graceful, gentle as water. Unable to speak, she lived in seclusion, frail and dependent on others. Yu Ting married her, thinking it was a tacit business arrangement, only to realize how demanding she was after bringing her home— She was tender, offering the gentlest care when Yu Ting was dead drunk; sweet and shy, calling Yu Ting “wife” in careful strokes on paper; yet fragile-hearted. Though three years older, she’d cry if Yu Ting ignored her messages, refusing to eat until coaxed. If she caught a whiff of another’s perfume on Yu Ting, she’d drag her into the bathroom, scrubbing her over and over with her own soap, determined to imprint her scent. Fragile, obsessive, and capricious. One moment, she’d promise to behave; the next, if Yu Ting got too close to another woman, she’d threaten to run away—barefoot, just to make Yu Ting ache for her. Yet Yu Ting grew obsessed. Though mute, she’d hum seductively in passion. When her voice returned, her favorite thing was draping over Yu Ting, whispering in her ear: “Lo-ve Ting-ting~” She wanted to hide Ting-ting away.