The Golden Prison

Ethan, a medical student from a destitute family, struck a deal with Claire, the widowed matriarch of a wealthy medical conglomerate, to cover his mother’s exorbitant surgery fees. He moved into her manor as her lover, and shortly after their marriage, he became the youngest chief administrator of a top-tier hospital. Yet Claire’s morbid urge to control trapped him utterly within a gilded cage. She seized all his assets, forbade him from interacting with any women, and demanded round-the-clock updates on his whereabouts. Long-term mental torment and humiliation stripped him of every shred of self-respect. On the brink of breaking down, Ethan fell into a forbidden romance with Lam, an upright radiologist brimming with warmth. Desperate to break free from his cage and reclaim his freedom, he drew on his medical expertise to plot a near-perfect murder. When his scheme unraveled, Claire cast Ethan out penniless and blacklisted him across the entire medical industry. One misfortune followed another: his mother passed away from illness, friends and relatives cut all ties with him, and his lover abandoned him. Left with nothing at all, Ethan swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills i…