That year she was eighteen, and Qi Ye was twenty-three. She was trapped in hell, in constant danger. He was wild and unrestrained, standing at the top of the pyramid. She was frightened and afraid, and wanted to escape, but her escape caught Qi Ye's eye. From then on, all of Li Wan's lies and betrayals became, in Qi Ye's view, nothing more than harmless love games. Li Wan was stuck in a mire that never saw daylight, and every struggle to survive looked to Qi Ye like a performance of playing hard to get. He watched her flee from above, believing all her resistance was just a ploy, never knowing she was giving everything she had simply to escape this suffocating abyss.