“Put on the wire. Don’t disappoint your benefactor.”
Beneath the cold light refracted through the champagne tower, his fingertips trace the side of her neck, like fastening a shackle around his prey.
Shen Wei goes undercover at the Gu Corporation as a fallen heiress, only to walk straight into the carefully woven snare of Gu Chenzhou, the man in charge.
He tears away her disguise and forces her to wear a wire, feeding him false intelligence.
He flashes a bloodstained prosecutor’s badge and asks with a smile, “Want to see your father’s confession?”
And amid their bodies warming one another in a snowy mountain cave, he bites the tip of her tongue. “Is this drop of blood enough to unlock your father’s chip?”
When a pregnancy test becomes a bargaining chip in a war between capitalists,
when the tip of a neurotoxin needle presses against an infant’s heart,
she holds a gun to his brow. “Want to bet? Bet on whether you can bear to let us both die?”
This is a deadly game that begins with lies:
She finds a video of her father suffering a drug-induced fit in his dressing room.
He writes the coordinates for the “Godslayer Plan” on the back of her pregnancy test.
And deep in a drawer, a bloodstained chip lies beside a baby bottle,
reflecting the dawn and dusk of an entire financial empire beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows.
