In here, the victime gets r*ped several times (and even gets threatened with a video) and is forced to leave her beloved husband and to live with one of her rapists, the one who orchestrated it all but she never forgives him or falls for him. She may get kinda attached to him or get used to be him at some point (though it seems to be more out of survival) but not once, she forgets everything he's put her through (even though she's sometimes so emotionally broken and exhausted that she considers forgetting it all, and just letting days go, allowing her jailer to have her and even pretending she likes him : however, we quickly realize she's a fighter and so, even if she's tired, even if she's down, she'll always get up again, always remember that she can't live like that, live with someone she hates and lie to herself that she's okay with living with the one who ruined her life and had her r*ped, even though he now loves her. Like I said, she's a fighter)
and this is where we understand the origin of the title : « Who is the prey? »

At first, it seems the female lead, He Yan, is the prey of the psychological torture imposed by Fu Shen Xing. And then, things slowly start to change, at least, on her jailer's side. Fu Shen Xing slowly falls for her, and in that way, he actually becomes her prey, or at least, prey of the love he has for her. But it's too late : he's hurt her so much that not only she could never love him but she can never forget the scars that are in her heart and will always hate him.
And this is his punishment : not only he falls in love, and therefore has a weakness, but he must now live with the pain of knowing the one he loves will never love him back, and with the guilt of knowing that he only has himself to blame for that.
He's now not only prey of his love for her because she doesn't love him and never will but also of his guilt and torment to have hurt, sullied and shamed the one he now loves. He may have her, have her body but he'll never have her heart or her trust and what's worst, he knows that he did everything to deserve her treatment. Sometime, the pain of knowing she doesn't love him, even hates him, and the remorse almost make him crazy and for us readers, that feels good. When she's kidnapped by the first man to whom he sold her in the past, a pe*vert and a sadistic, he clearly realizes how much he hurt her and how impossible it is for her to love him : when he finds her being tortured by him, full of scars, after hours of crazy worries, her first reaction is to remind him that two years ago, he almost forced her to go through this for his personal pleasure. However, at that time, he didn't care and even rejoiced of her suffering. For the 1st time, reality strikes him, although he had always known but he always tried to forget, to forget that this woman he's now very in love with, he's had her raped several times, r*ped her himself, used her r*pe to threaten and torment her in every way possible, forced to prostitution and even threatened her loved ones to force her to sully herself. But at that time, he didn't care. Now that he loves her, of course it doesn't feel the same to see her sufferings due to all of that and to remember what he did. All this time, he had tried to escape and forget this guilt, hoping everyone (especially He Yan, the victim) would forget, because not only it made him crazy with shame and remorse (nothing to be proud, after all, to have done all of that to a woman to a woman when you're now claiming for her love) but also because he thinks that if He Yan were to forget, she might love him : but now, he can no longer be blind about his guilt. But his current feelings don't matter : the wrong is done. Now, he's confronted the fact that he did that and unlike him who tried to forget it all, hoping she would forget it too, she had to live with this. Fu Shen Xing must live with the fact that he had the woman he loved r*ped, tortured, sold, aborted (yes, at some point, she was pregnant with her husband and he forced her to abort, out of jealousy, even though he was already in love with her) and that he's the one who gave her all of her sufferings when he now wishes to make her happy.
i will give this a 3/5 because this is very hard and angsty and I'm not into that
and there's also one thing that I hated about the end : He Yan keeps Fu Shen Xing's baby. Not because she wants it, not because she can't do otherwise, but because her husband (the one she truly loves) convinces her to do so because he thinks that this would be wrong.

That really annoyed me. I know China doesn't have the same opinion about abortion than us, even though it's legal, because they consider it to be immoral, to be mu*der but I cannot force myself to understand that.

In my opinion, a woman should not have to keep a child she doesn't want, and especially not the child of a man who r*ped and tortured her just because society doesn't approve. A woman's body is her own, she should do whatever she wants with it : forcing her into s*x is already unacceptable, forcing her into having a baby she doesn't want and who was born from this forced-relationship-that-shouldn't-have-happened is also unacceptable to me. If she wants to have the child, let her be, if she doesn't, then also let her be.

nevetheless, I give this a good note because even though I hated it (too hard for me), this is a good writing, and the author fulfilled his goal by showing how toxic this kind of relationships are and that they shouldn't be shown as acceptable or romantic. This was also original : she showed a toxic game of strength and madness between two people and we can't help but want to know what will happen, how this will end. Will the female lead get through this hell or will she be destroyed ? Or will she fall in love with her jailer, like we usually expect it.

and when we see her finally getting out of this hell, we are finally relieved and we have no mercy for Fu Shen Xing who finds himself alone and unloved (I think he even deserved worst).
this is a bittersweet ending : Fu Shenxing now regrets but accepts to let He Yan go and even though He Yan will never be the same, never forget, she is finally free and can now take the time to rest, to learn to live with her scars and accept these with the help of someone she loves and who loves and treats her well

Because he ended up loving her in the process of his cruel game, he wanted to give up half way and forget everything he's ever done to her (the gang r*pe, prostitution, s*xual abuse). There's a scene where she looks at him and tells him to disinfect himself before her because he's dirtied himself with the touch of her friend. He gets upset tells her he's never touched her friend, and only kissed her in the time they spent apart since she escaped. He didn't know it was her friend at the time, so how can she think he's "soiled and disgusting" as if she's never kissed anyone. She looks at him mockingly and tells him it's okay if he finds her disgusting too —after all he made her a prostitute and forced her to sleep with his friends. He panics, not wanting to think about what he did because now it hurts him to think about her being touched by anyone other than him. He covers her mouth with his hand and apologizes repeatedly calling himself a bastard. She was so powerful in this part, cause her eyes were cold while his were sad and love driven. She's beaten him in every sense of the word, to the point where he willingly lets her deceive him.