Xu Nian, who witnessed his mother's death, became mute due to PTSD. After losing his mother's love, his father married his lover and brought a stepdaughter of similar age. Since then, Xu Nian has been treated coldly by his father and bullied by his stepmother Jiang Wanli and her daughter Xu Yao. However, Xu Nian always believed that there was another secret behind her mother's death. In order to find out the truth, she could only pretend to be a weak and simple mute girl, but in fact she was a kind but intelligent black lotus. The cold-faced overlord Gu Mingyan is resolute and stern. His childhood experience made him suffer from paranoia and be defensive against people. Gu Mingyan has always suspected that the death of his father Gu Tao was a conspiracy of collusion between the Xu family and Gu Hongyu. After learning the true identity of Xu Nian, he wanted to use Xu Nian to find out the truth, so he used a dark routine to trick Xu Nian into signing a marriage contract and living together legitimately, but he didn't know that he was the prey of the white-cut black hunter Xu Nian. The two strong men and women fought each other's wits from acting to pretending to be real on the road of love.