Her secret became his leverage.

After his wife passed away, fifty-year-old Silas Hawthorne put on a show of overwhelming grief and successfully fooled everyone. Leona Whitmore, a nineteen-year-old and the childhood sweetheart of his son Lin Chaosheng, was simple and kind-hearted. To fulfill her beloved's request, she would come by the Lin household regularly to help take care of things. Little did she know that this seemingly despondent elder had already set his sights on her at the funeral. That day, when she pushed open the door and saw Silas Hawthorne sitting before the memorial tablet, clutching a beer can with eyes full of desolation, she rushed forward without a second thought to comfort him—and with that single step, she walked right into a snare.