At a glamorous Shanghai soirée, the well-heeled crowd whispers about the marriage of Fu Yanning, the eldest daughter of the Fu family.
Swirling my champagne with a smile, I say, “The Fu family needs a piece on the board that can stir up the winds and clouds, not a puppet in a marriage alliance.”
The next morning, esports headlines explode: #Jungler Zhou Jin Seen Entering the Fu Residence Late at Night#
Reporters surround him, asking if he’s trying to marry above his station.
In front of the cameras, the young man pulls open his team jersey, revealing red marks all over his collarbone where I grabbed him. “Marry above my station? The young lady was the one who dug me out as her pawn in the middle of the night...”