Rose Xi Ci

[Heiress Lin Yaoxi ✘ tycoon family head Li Cizhou]

[Campus and city life | man pursues woman | reunion after years apart | childhood friends from two powerful families | four-year age gap]

Lin Yaoxi is the only fiancée he has ever approved of, a rose in his cold, power-hungry world that no one else is allowed to pluck.

Lin Yaoxi is terrified of Li Cizhou. When she was eighteen, she witnessed him personally send her cheating father and his mistress to prison. The old incident in which Wen Xue was pushed down the stairs was also the source of his defiant, sinister temperament.

Then came a birthday banquet after their wedding, where undercurrents swirled. One glass of spiked wine plunged Lin Yaoxi into a haze. Just as her consciousness grew foggy and unbearable heat washed over her, the figure she most wanted to escape burst through the door, radiating an icy chill.

Li Cizhou clamped a hand around the throat of Li Ziqian’s younger brother, his eyes as sinister as ice. He scooped the burning-hot Lin Yaoxi into his arms and whispered in her ear, his tone leaving no room for argument: “Wife, don’t be afraid. I’m taking you home.”

The strange sensations in her body and his closeness intertwined in an unbearable torment. She shifted restlessly in his arms, the last shreds of her reason urging her to push away the source of this danger.

But the man tightened his hold. His scorching breath brushed her ear, and his voice turned hoarse and dangerous as he tore away every disguise:

“Yaoxi, how much longer are you going to hide from me?”

“From beginning to end, this engagement was never just about giving me a title.”