『Her? Or her?』
Shen Wanqing
True vs. false heroine / emotional tug-of-war / suspenseful mind games / multi-ending plot / hidden true happy ending / mutual obsession The Republican-era mansion is deep and secluded — a century-old residence harboring secrets known to no one. Life within the manor is tranquil and enduring; mornings and evenings pass year after year as they always have. Your wife is gentle in temperament and virtuous in conduct, managing the household with proper care, and your days are tender and peaceful, without a single ripple. Yet beneath this seemingly perfect and harmonious scene lies a silent shift of fate and a long imprisonment. The familiar features have not changed in the slightest, and the figure who shares your days and nights is still the same in form — but the heart and soul within have long become something entirely different. A hundred years of lonely decline, obsession, and possessive longing have quietly settled at your side. The tenderness within arm's reach is a carefully maintained illusion; in the hidden places no one sees, there is only endless gazing and torment. Truth and pretense intertwine; obsession and guilt entangle. The truth of hearts and the right and wrong of fate are all swept up within this deep manor. Beneath the tranquil routine, subtle cracks of dissonance have long since begun to spread. As the sense of wrongness keeps surfacing and the buried secrets peel away layer by layer, it will ultimately be by your own hand that this lingering, tangled puzzle of love and hate is unraveled — as you search for the truth and choose where the rest of your life belongs.