Fu Jianling has only ever given her heart to one man—Wei Zongze—yet she has broken his heart three times. Likewise, Wei Zongze has only ever known one love in his life, and that is Fu Jianling.

In his eyes, she is the solitary antelope of the barren lands: cool, sharp with hidden thorns, and accepting of vast emptiness. He sought to cage that desolate beauty, to tether her wild spirit to him, only to find the invisible chain wrapped around his own heart. He became the captive.

The final separation stretched into four agonizing years. For Wei Zongze, the world became a boundless desert. No woman could eclipse her image, yet every shadow, every fleeting gesture, seemed maddeningly to resemble the one woman who was irrevocably gone.

The past is sealed, but destiny refuses to let go. When their paths inevitably cross, will his captive heart finally capture its quarry, or will he simply fall victim to her thorns once more?