Lan Xi, the eldest daughter of the Lan family, a Lingnan clan of ancient martial artists, wore a custom diamond wedding gown worth a fortune as she sang a heartfelt proposal song beneath the dazzling lights on the hotel's rooftop. She had thought that all this carefully planned romance would win the heart of Ling Yuan, heir to the Ling family. Instead, she watched him kneel on one knee and pledge himself to another girl. Raised from childhood under strict etiquette, Lan Xi forced down the shock and pain surging in her heart and performed the final note flawlessly.
She stepped gracefully off the stage, her back straight as a pine tree. Her gaze swept over the crowd before settling on a mysterious man in sunglasses. Black Glasses wore a sharply tailored black suit, his tall, slender figure straight and elegant. A faint smile played on his lips, and an inscrutable, dangerous allure radiated from him.
Lan Xi walked straight up to him and hooked an arm around his neck. Her voice was low and resolute. "Darling, I love you!" Black Glasses paused in surprise, then smiled even more broadly. He was about to tease her when Lan Xi grabbed him by the collar and kissed him passionately, with all the resolve of someone who had staked everything on this. Just then, brilliant fireworks burst across the sky, bathing them in a riot of color.
Wu Xie, standing beside Black Glasses, stared wide-eyed, his mouth forming an "O." Xie Yuchen raised an eyebrow, surprise and curiosity in his eyes. Black Glasses pulled away from Lan Xi's lips and joked, "Beautiful, Lord Black isn't someone you can just..." Before he could finish, Lan Xi cut him off coldly. "Play along and you'll get paid. If you don't, I'll hunt you down to the ends of the earth and kill you."
