[Sweet on the outside, ruthless underneath heiress by adoption × celibate family heir]
The year the Cheng family adopted me, Cheng Yanzhi crushed the milk candy I'd hidden away. “Remember, you're only a shadow of your big sister.”
At my eighteenth-birthday celebration, I showed up in his fiancée's wedding dress. As the new financial elite gasped, he personally fastened a shackle around my ankle. “Looks like I taught you too well all these years.”
Later, on the night of a showdown between Wall Street traders, I detonated the Swiss account he'd given me. The screen flashed with surveillance footage of every line we'd crossed. “Brother, which gets you a longer sentence: abetting a crime or falling in love with your replacement?”
Behind the bulletproof glass of the stock exchange, he took off his tie and wrapped it around my trembling wrist.
“Will you sentence me to a lifetime trapped in the rose garden?”
