A Love That Cuts to the Bone: Love as Bait, the Heart Reduced to Ashes

An intense, heartbreaking romance that begins with a conspiracy and ends in shattered hearts, a deadly clash of revenge and redemption.

Ten years ago, the Shen Group destroyed her family’s business, and her father, falsely accused, jumped to his death. Su Qinghuan went from a pampered heiress to a revenge-seeking orphan forced to hide her identity. Ten years later, she carefully sets her plan in motion, using gentleness as a mask to approach her enemy’s son: Shen Yucheng, a man who can turn the tides of the business world as president of the Shen Group and also rules the underground kingdom known as the Night Alliance.

Shen Yucheng is an emperor with a heart frozen by childhood abandonment and his father’s violent death. Su Qinghuan appears like a ray of light that should not exist, unexpectedly illuminating his desolate world. He sees through her calculated advances, yet still keeps her confined beneath his wing, weaving a net she cannot escape with possessive dominance and occasional tenderness. When others make things difficult for her, he quietly clears every obstacle. When she falls ill, he puts billion-yuan contracts aside to stay by her bedside, yet coldly says, “Only I get to pick on my woman.”

But this game played in the name of love has long drawn the attention of all sides. Gu Yanci, his business rival, uses the promise of helping her take revenge to force her to become a mole. Lin Shuyao, his nominal fiancée, turns her love into hatred and lays trap after trap. Even Su Man, her half-sister, betrays her and leaks their secrets. When Lu Shiyan, who had been protecting her, is shot dead while delivering a message, every last bit of balance is shattered. Shen Yucheng completely loses control and locks her firmly at his side, his eyes bloodshot as he demands, “Su Qinghuan, what do you want? I can give you anything, even let you destroy me with your own hands, if you dare.”