The Male Model Rookie Won't Stop Pursuing the Queen of Shadows

When Cen Ruan spots that figure backstage at Fashion Week, the glass wall reflects her pale face. Memories of those ten days three years ago surge back like a rising tide. He leans against a lightbox, lighting a cigarette. The flare sweeps across his brow, like the promise of a wildfire reigniting.

She is a creative director at an advertising agency, with reason as her armor. He is a top model, as fierce as the wind. Fate sweeps them back to the same city. At the edge of a runway where spotlights mingle with shadows, Cen Ruan tries to escape not only Lu Chiye, but also fragments of memories steeped in alcohol, desire, and shame. Until he approaches her of his own accord, with a tenderness born of vengeance, slowly eroding her boundaries.

In Act One, she is trapped in a prison of the heart, afraid to touch any form of intimacy. In Act Two, he advances step by step, only to fall truly and deeply in love as he closes in. In Act Three, the truth cuts like a blade, dissecting the past and tearing away the disguise. The price is trust, dignity, and the choices they make as they stumble again and again between reason and desire.

When shadows are no longer something that obscures the light, but instead reveal the deepest desires within, how should people face their true feelings?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.