When Love Runs Out

Episode 1

Nick Frye has everyone fooled. After a car accident, he claims he remembers everyone except his fiancée, Ruby Wright—and she believes him. She pours her entire savings into a rumored cure, desperate to bring back the man she loves. But behind her back, Nick laughs with friends, bragging that he just wants one more month of freedom before settling down. He boasts that Ruby will always belong to him, no matter where she runs. Ruby, meanwhile, is done crying. She walks into an office and asks to change her name.

Episode 2

Ruby's name-change application is filed, and the wait begins—one month for approval. She calls an old mentor and asks him to buy her a plane ticket abroad using her new ID. He's surprised she's finally agreeing to study overseas, and she admits she was foolish before, delaying her dreams for three years because Nick didn't want long distance. Now there's no future for them at all. Meanwhile, Nick presents a sentimental anniversary gift—seven years of memories—and asks Ruby to stay with him until the end of her life. But when she brings up leaving, he slips: he remembers everything. She catches it instantly. "You're not amnesiac? Then how do you remember all this?"

Episode 3

Nick scrambles to cover his slip, claiming he only remembers Tong Nianxi—the woman he says saved him in the crash. Ruby realizes there was no crash, and no amnesia; it's all an act. He brings Tong Nianxi into their home, and she shamelessly asks Ruby for condoms, bragging that they used a whole box. Ruby doesn't cry or scream. She stays eerily calm, which unsettles Nick. Tong Nianxi taunts her, and when Ruby finally slaps her, Nick explodes, threatening Ruby if she ever touches "Xixi" again. Ruby walks away, heartbroken but resolved: she has already decided to give him up. Love shouldn't hurt this much.

Episode 4

Tong Nianxi corners Ruby, smug and cruel. She knows Nick is faking his amnesia, and she knows why—he prefers her in bed. She tells Ruby to leave the position of Nick's wife, mocking her as a cold fish who can't satisfy him. Then comes the unthinkable: an accident leaves both women needing surgery, but only one surgeon is available. Nick is forced to choose. Tong Nianxi threatens that if her hands are ruined, she'll expose everything. Nick hesitates, then tells the doctor to save Tong Nianxi first. Ruby's hands—the hands of a top photographer, her livelihood and her life—are left waiting. The betrayal cuts deeper than any lie.

Episode 5

Ruby wakes after three days to learn Nick chose Tong Nianxi in the operating room. Tong Nianxi gloats at her bedside, saying Nick loves her body more and that Ruby is pathetic for staying. But Nick has a plan: in 23 days, he'll "recover" his memory, then hold a grand wedding and never leave Ruby again. He's already ordered her ring. Ruby listens, hollow. Her mentor arrives to take her home, and she mentions she'll be abroad in twenty days—he's joining an exchange program too, so they can look after each other. Nick sees them together and snaps, demanding to know who allowed her to get so close to another man.

Episode 6

Ruby coldly reminds Nick that he doesn't acknowledge her as his girlfriend, so he has no right to control who she talks to. She leaves with her mentor. Nick, rattled, takes a call—then discovers Ruby's savings are gone; she really did spend everything on his fake cure. Tong Nianxi, meanwhile, hires Ruby for a birthday photo shoot, paying double. She poses provocatively and asks Ruby to capture every angle, clearly trying to humiliate her. Later, Tong Nianxi taunts Nick about their games, and he admits that compared to Ruby's coldness, Tong Nianxi satisfies him more. But the question lingers: if he loves her, why keep up the amnesia act at all?

Episode 7

A friend returns a diary found at their old school—Nick's diary from seven years ago. Ruby reads it: entries about her not answering him, about waiting four hours outside her house just to glimpse her, about punching a boy who confessed to her, about his seventeenth birthday wish to be with her forever. These pages are full of love and sincerity. Yet now, Tong Nianxi brags about the birthday photos Ruby took for her, twisting the knife. Ruby realizes the boy in those pages is gone. The youth and devotion recorded there have been buried—replaced by a man who lies, cheats, and humiliates her.

Episode 8

A hotel calls Ruby: her fiancé booked a wedding banquet for tomorrow, but they can't reach him. Tomorrow is also the day Nick plans to "regain" his memory—and the day Ruby plans to leave. She arranges a surprise for him, asking staff to deliver a gift after she's gone. Nick, meanwhile, rehearses his proposal at the spot where he first asked Ruby to marry him, using Tong Nianxi as a stand-in. He swears he'll only ever love Ruby. But Tong Nianxi pulls him close, and he admits that after today, everything ends—he'll belong only to Ruby. "That's why I don't want you anymore," she says.

Episode 9

Ruby picks up her new ID—her final tie to this life severed. Nick's friends prepare a surprise to "wake" him, joking about how he endured Ruby's coldness while enjoying Tong Nianxi. They note his heart still belongs to Ruby, but that doesn't stop the cruelty. Ruby watches Nick and Tong Nianxi together one last time and says, "This is the last time I'll feel pain for you." Nick delays his memory recovery until night, wanting one more indulgence. But Ruby is already gone—new ID in hand, everything tied to her old life discarded. A fresh start begins, without Nick Frye.