At my twenty-second birthday party, my sworn enemy told me the truth.
Xu Jinchi, the “uncle” I had loved and respected for twelve years, was the one who covered up the tragedy of my mother's brutal death.
He gave me a pink diamond worth a fortune and treated me like a precious gem he had carefully raised.
I smiled and accepted it, then turned north and fell into the arms of his greatest rival in business.
Zhou Tingyan, the coldest and most ruthless king of capital in North City.
I offered him my proof of loyalty. “I'll help you swallow the Lin family. You help me uncover the truth.”
He looked intrigued. “Deal.”
Everyone laughed at me, a canary who didn't know her place. They said the two men would tear me apart sooner or later.
Until I became a legend in the world of perfumery and used the business tactics he taught me to turn the empire he cherished upside down with my own hands.
In the glass conservatory, he clutched my mother's diary, his eyes bloodshot as he confessed to every sin and demanded to know what the twelve years he'd spent caring for me meant.
I smashed my mother's perfume bottle and sneered amid the spreading fragrance.
“Xu Jinchi, your love is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.”
【Vengeful Queen × Top Predator | Two Strong Leads, Flirting and Testing Each Other to the Limit】
I used his power to break through the trap, but he wanted to keep me by his side forever.
When Zhou Tingyan took out a ring and vowed to make me his “lover, comrade-in-arms, and ally who would never betray me,” I knew I had long since fallen into this relationship that began as a transaction.
