My Overbearing, Icy, and Invincible Male Lead Dotes on Our Artist

[Aloof forensic pathologist turned security expert × gentle ancient-book illustrator | Mutual redemption | A powerful partnership] Ling Chen, code-named “Frostblade,” is a former forensic pathologist and now an elite security expert. He is used to building his world around rules and evidence, until an antiquities theft case brings him face-to-face with Su Mo, an ancient-book restorer who searches for the truth among the traces of ink. One is a guardian imprisoned by the past, living as a “weapon without warmth.” The other is a restorer with an injured right hand, fighting fate with a paintbrush and sheer determination. When they first meet in an abandoned warehouse, the blood on his face and the bamboo-painted handkerchief he offers make two broken souls recognize the loneliness in each other. From “protecting and being protected” to “fighting side by side,” he takes a fatal blow for him, and he strikes back with the fine needle he uses to restore ancient books. He teaches him to recognize danger; he teaches him to feel the warmth of the world. The cold brutality of gunfire gives way to the tenderness of protecting the scent of ink, while the strength in those ink strokes becomes armor against the storm. This is a story of redemption and growth: you free me from the cage of rules, and I protect you from the depths of darkness. In the end, we both become each other’s light.