For Lu Xize, that period of time was an indescribable darkness.
At one point, he thought he and Chu Yao truly had no future together.
He threw himself into cutthroat competition, pouring all of his time and energy into the endless scheming.
To outsiders, it seemed he was fighting so desperately to reclaim what belonged to Lu Hailan and to him, but only Lu Xize knew it was all just a way to numb himself.
By turning himself into a machine that did nothing but work, he could find a moment of peace only after his body was utterly exhausted. Only then could he stop thinking about the girl, the one whose memory, even the slightest fragment, felt like his heart was being torn apart.
After five years of living like that, Lu Xize had stabilized the Lu Family's situation and secured his own position within it. And then, he discovered he had no idea what to do anymore.
