Lin Chuxia steps through the gates of Jinghua University with eighteen years’ worth of intelligence, independence, and a touch of rebelliousness, ready to begin a free and exciting college life. But running into her childhood friend Gu Yusen, now the campus’s most sought-after heartthrob, sends her plans veering off course.
Gu Yusen is just like his name: cool and solitary as an island, deep and mysterious as a forest. Beneath his aloof, distant exterior lie a cunning mind and a desire for control that few know about. When Lin Chuxia blurts out that he’s her “human shield” in a moment of desperation, he doesn’t call her out. Instead, he plays along, curling his fingers around hers and murmuring a low, dangerous promise in her ear: “You’ll have to pay the price.”
