"Twenty years ago, Zhao Xiaoyun and her six-year-old son, Gao Zewei, were abducted and sold into the notorious Blind Mountain. In a desperate bid to save her son, Xiaoyun seized a lighter dropped by their captors and set the place ablaze, risking her life to ensure Zewei’s escape. Two decades later, Gao Zewei has risen to become the formidable CEO of Shengke Group. When he tracks down the traffickers who ruined their lives, they reveal a shocking truth: Xiaoyun never perished in the fire. Following their lead, Zewei finds his mother in Nancheng—but she’s now a vegetative shell of her former self, betrayed by her cheating husband and his mistress, Ye Zhen. Ye Zhen, who stole Xiaoyun’s identity using a dropped prayer charm, plays the doting mother flawlessly—until Xiaoyun miraculously awakens, her mind fractured by poison but her love for her son unshaken. In a heart-wrenching scene, the disoriented Xiaoyun stumbles into a gathering, clawing at strangers in search of Zewei. When she attacks Ye Zhen, screaming “Thief!”, Zewei—fooled by Ye’s forged scar and manipulative tears—brutally turns on his real mother, leaving her broken. Only when Zewei is critically injured in a staged ac…
