[Possessiveness + Eight-Year Age Gap + Intense Chemistry + Happy Ending]
Renowned professor Rong Xiao hides a vanished star from a mountain village beneath his elegant exterior. When he takes the podium at S University, his hawk-like gaze locks onto the campus belle below: Shen Zhao, the very “prey” he searched high and low for, without success!
A tender trap closes in, step by step, as he stubbornly claims her as his. She retreats in panic: how could the high-and-mighty Lord Xiao ever lower himself to someone as insignificant as her? Rumors cut like blades, but they can’t pierce the walls around her heart. Rong Xiao’s gentle facade comes crashing down, and his abyss-deep possessiveness threatens to consume her.
The shadows on muddy mountain paths and whispers beneath the midsummer cicadas become invisible chains binding them together. When danger shatters the peace, he shields her with his own body. To remove the barriers between them, he breaks his own wings. The cage he so carefully built turns out to be an island where he has sacrificed every last bit of tenderness.
“Shen Zhao, lock me up.” He offers her the only key, his eyes burning with absolute sincerity.
She brushes her fingertips over the cold metal and smiles. “Rong Xiao, your abyss has been my way home all along.”
The predator submits to the starlight, and the light loses itself in the eternal night.
