Bait at Dawn

Twelve years ago, the Qiao Group held a charity gala. The venue suddenly caught fire and exploded, and Qiao Su lost her parents in the disaster. Adopted by the Qiao family, she became the foster daughter they cared about least. But when turmoil engulfed the Qiao Group, old enemies closed in, the police launched an in-depth investigation, and the upper ranks descended into bloody infighting. In the end, every clue seemed to lead back to Qiao Su, the one no one had ever paid attention to.

Tan Li, a hired fighter whose identity was shrouded in mystery, was seriously injured while saving Chairman Kun Yuan during the explosion at the charity gala twelve years ago. As a result, the chairman personally named him heir. But years of illness had worn away his edge. When the storm hit and the Poison Dragon emerged from the sea, his weariness vanished like mist, and he was still the blade forged to shatter evil.

The Qiao Group was like a vast tomb, burying every deeply concealed secret. Yet countless people reveled in their crimes within that lightless, sealed-off world.

Even though everything from that year had been burned to ashes, the truth would be reborn from them. Even if they had to use their own flesh and blood as fuel, make themselves bait, and forge their pain into armor, they would remain unstoppable, battered and bruised though they might be, until justice was restored.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.