Lily has long lived in the sunless O'Sullivan family, enduring the indifference of her father and the morbid brutality of her brother Chase. After fleeing a humiliating bar party, Lily narrowly escaped Chase's murderous attack, only to be saved by Alexander, the heir to a financial conglomerate she had secretly and humbly adored, who descended like a deity. Yet fate showed no mercy: her family, on the verge of bankruptcy, treated Lily as nothing more than a bargaining chip worth a mere thirty thousand dollars, forcing her into a marriage with Alexander. Faced with this utterly undignified transaction, Alexander outwardly displayed extraordinary coldness and mockery, claiming it was nothing but a filthy revenge contract, while in his eyes lay an irrepressible, frenzied possessiveness that he could no longer suppress.
