The Falcon’s Encounter with the Apricot Grove

Dong Nanzhu starts out in hell mode: her father doesn’t love her, her mother died young, her stepmother smiles with a knife hidden behind her back, and her stepbrother follows close behind, ready to bite.

Clutching poison pills, silver needles, and a scalpel, she takes down her scumbag father with one hand and deals with her stepmother with the other, while stamping her stepbrother into the dirt for good measure. She’s equally skilled at saving lives and making money, and a master at both poisoning and healing. She planned to enjoy her own company forever, but ended up falling into the arms of a remarkable man.

Her heart races the first time she gets close to a man? Dong Nanzhu sneers. “Hah. Men only slow me down when I’m poisoning someone!”

Shen Chengxiao is infamous in business circles for his ruthlessness. His parents are both dead, and his greedy uncles and cousins have their eyes on his inheritance.

He tears into his ungrateful relatives, deals with a clingy young lady, and handles matchmaking dinners like bomb disposal, until he meets Dong Nanzhu, the blind date set up by his sister, who’s obsessed with her brother.

This woman is sharp-tongued and ruthless. She doesn’t even blink when saving a life, and she smiles like a flower when poisoning someone.

He agrees to a trial romance out of curiosity, but falls for her completely the moment she brandishes a blade to protect him.

Later, everyone discovers that the feared King of Hell, Shen, who can drive his enemies to leap off buildings, follows Dong Nanzhu around like a loyal dog every day.

“Nanzhu, want me to bury that scumbag father for you?”

“Nanzhu, how many times do you want me to slash your stepmother’s face?”

“Nanzhu, it’s late. Time to fulfill our ‘trial romance’ obligations...”

Dong Nanzhu runs a finger over the silver needle she has just coated with poison and ponders: Is this man an antidote or a toxin?