At the wedding, before the pink diamond ring could slide onto her finger, Su Wangyan vaulted through a floor-to-ceiling window, wedding dress and all. It was her first time running away from her wedding. Looking at the rose petals scattered across the floor, Gu Yancheng sneered and launched a global manhunt. “Su Wangyan, no matter how many times you run, I’ll chase you every time.”
From a castle in London to the night markets of Bangkok, from an Arctic research station to a Caribbean cruise ship, she transformed into a hacker and tampered with the tracking System, while he deployed private satellites to lay an inescapable net. She disguised herself as an opera singer and performed onstage; he infiltrated the orchestra as a musician and exposed her disguise. During their 365-day game of cat and mouse, Gu Yancheng discovered that this rebellious heiress was secretly the elite hacker “Dark Rose,” and that the engagement she was so desperate to escape was connected to the massacre of both families twenty years ago. Could it be that someone from the Gu family had set fire to the Su residence?
After her nth failed escape, Su Wangyan was pinned down on the yacht’s deck. “Gu Yancheng, what do you want?” He wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, his fingertip brushing the old scar on her collarbone, a “mark of protection” he had left on her during the childhood fire. It turned out that the so-called alliance between wealthy families was merely a scheme devised by their cunning elders. And his grueling pursuit of her had been destined to become a struggle between redemption and betrayal ever since he saw her curled up in the ruins at the age of seven.
The mysteries surrounding their past and the business conspiracy erupted at the same time. She was running from her wedding to escape the stigma of being the daughter of an accomplice to murder; he was pursuing her to uncover evidence of a traitor in his family. When the truth pushed them to the edge of a cliff, would the wedding runaway disappear once more, or stand beside him and tear away the mask of the wealthy elite?
