Runaway Bride, Ruthless Hunt

Shen Man runs through the rain in a wedding dress with blood on it. The ceremony she is fleeing was meant to end with her dead, and the man who planned it is Gu Zeyan, the groom, working together with Bai Weiwei, the friend Shen Man trusted most. Their method is not a knife. In front of the guests they call her mentally ill, and they have a psychiatric assessment on paper to back the claim. The plan is to force sedatives into her, commit her to Jingan Hospital, and then have Bai Weiwei step into her name and her property while she is locked up and medicated past the point of being believed. Fighting to stay out of that building, Shen Man works out what the last three years actually were. The tenderness, the engagement, the long patient courtship were staging for an inheritance, and the person she loved built the cage himself. She has her name, her identity and her money to take back, and the two of them still have the documents and the doctors on their side.