Trapped in His World, Lost in His Love

Su Nian's stepfather dies and the debt he left is held by the Fu family, who move to take the house. Rather than lose everything, Su Nian arranges to live in the Fu household herself, which keeps her family under a roof while she works off what is owed. Fu Chenyan does not want her there and makes that clear in small ways every day, giving her work she cannot finish and picking apart what she does. She takes a night job at a club to make money of her own and keeps it from the household. One night the job goes wrong and she is cornered by a customer. Fu Chenyan turns up and gets her out, and neither of them knows what to do with that afterward. He keeps up the same behavior toward her but starts noticing where she is and who she is with. Su Nian, who came into the house treating him as the man holding her family's property, finds that harder to maintain. They go on living in the same house while both of them work out what has changed.