When Heartbeats Ring

Episode 1

A courtroom verdict sets everything in motion: Henry Klein wins an acquittal for a deaf-mute wife accused of killing her husband by exposing a translation error in the interrogation record. Reporters swarm him outside, and one question cuts deep—why has he been married three years without ever sharing a room with his wife? Henry insists he loves Xenia, and that she is the reason his firm champions deaf clients. At home, Xenia's silence carries a sharper edge. Why keep her bound to him if he doesn't love her? Then a call arrives: a man naming himself Jiang Huaichuan claims he has killed Henry's wife.

Episode 2

Jiang Huaichuan doesn't stop at one call. He reaches a woman he addresses as "Mom," fishing for Song Xuyan's whereabouts, then demands five million from Henry. Henry refuses outright—pay nothing, do what you want. Jiang is stunned that Henry hung up on him, almost as if he thinks it's a prank. He boasts that his phone is modified and untraceable, and warns Xenia that her husband's coldness proves how little he cares. But Xenia isn't frightened. She quietly lets him talk, testing how far this bluff goes. Jiang's threats grow louder while his confidence starts to crack—someone on the other end isn't reacting the way a victim should.

Episode 3

Henry finally takes the threat seriously, ordering an immediate, no-expense-spared trace on the virtual number. He finds Xenia's phone switched off and panics—until she walks in alive. He brushes the kidnapping call off as a crude prank; nobody should even know she is his wife. Meanwhile, the number proves encrypted, and cracking it will take time. Elsewhere, the truth of Xenia's marriage surfaces: she was the substitute bride arranged into the Jiang family after Song Xuyan fled on her wedding day. The family threatens to cut off her father's medical care if she refuses. Xenia decides she will no longer be anyone's hostage.

Episode 4

Henry asks Xenia to accompany him to the Weiguang Gallery—not as his wife, but as his interpreter for a deaf-mute client, Mrs. Gao, the gallery's host. There, the mask slips. Mrs. Gao assumes Xenia is Henry's wife; Xenia corrects her, saying she is only his interpreter, nothing more. Henry, pressed about why his wife never appears at his side, says he keeps her away to protect her from the enemies his work creates. Xenia excuses herself, unsettled. Then the kidnapper's call finds her again, taunting her about the man who calls her his most important person yet would let her die. She finally asks: who are you?

Episode 5

The caller's game changes shape. He claims to know exactly who Xenia is—not Song Xuyan, the Song family's real daughter, but the stand-in bride sent to Henry after the real one ran away on her wedding day. If Henry won't comply, he'll hand the story to reporters and turn him into a laughingstock. Henry tries to pay him off, but the kidnapper says five million is no longer enough. His new demand is colder: abandon Song Xuyan. He repeats it, pressing Henry to throw his wife away entirely. Henry doesn't answer—and the silence says more than any reply.

Episode 6

The kidnapper raises the price and threatens to destroy the Jiang Group if Henry refuses. Henry doesn't flinch—he calls the scandal bluff, saying he can turn any accusation into fake news within minutes. The caller escalates, describing a rope around his captive's neck, her body trembling, unable to even beg. Henry orders him to stop, vowing to catch him personally. Yet doubt gnaws at Xenia: is this kidnapper real, or is someone staging all of it? She keeps recording every call, hiding the one thing no one suspects—she can speak.

Episode 7

Henry confronts Xenia about the bruises and the calls, asking whether the man truly kidnapped her and why she hid it. She deflects, needling him for pretending to care. Meanwhile, the kidnapper grows impatient—why hasn't Henry acted? Is the threat not enough? Then he plays his cruelest card: a photo he claims shows a mark on Xenia's body, threatening to sell it to reporters. Henry, a lawyer, dismisses it as a fake—until the caller challenges him to check his own wife. Henry doesn't know the mark. The kidnapper knows something a husband should.

Episode 8

Henry tells Xenia the kidnapper has escalated to threatening her private photos—and asks how such a picture could exist. Suspicion turns inward: why does this stranger seem to know her better than her own husband? Henry reveals there was a hidden camera in the warehouse the day she was taken, and a memory card. He demands the kidnapper be put on the phone. Xenia freezes—if that footage exists, could it expose the fact that she can speak? What else is buried on that card? The walls between their secrets are closing in fast.

Episode 9

The footage shows the attacker lunging at Xenia with a knife—a memory she can barely stand to relive. Henry apologizes for dragging it back up, but admits a segment of the video is missing. He still can't identify the kidnapper's face. To compensate, he has already had the caller's voice recorded. When Xenia is careless, Henry's composure cracks—he scolds her, then tells her to rest while he handles things. He offers to stay the night to keep her safe, insisting he means nothing by it. Xenia starts to wonder if he suspects her.

Episode 10

Henry spends the night at Xenia's side, telling her to forget the kidnapping—and to forget what he said about waiting until a body appears. Xenia can't tell if he truly cares or is simply furious that someone touched what he considers his. She cooks for him, wary it might be poisoned; he says he only worries about her being targeted, since her death benefits neither family. At the Jiang family dinner, the insults fly openly: the family mocks the "cheap impostor" they were forced to accept in place of the real Song daughter. Xenia sits through it—and the resentment sharpens.

Watch how one fake kidnapping unravels three years of silence—press play and follow every call.