Beneath the glittering surface at the top of the entertainment industry's pyramid lies a gray swamp where capital and desire intermingle. Rising star Cen Ye builds a high wall with his flawless acting, locking away his broken past and secret deals. A lavish dinner steeped in power and lust reunites him with his first love, Yan Chen, who once personally pushed him into the abyss. Once the campus golden boy, Yan Chen is now a ruthless rising star who makes waves in the world of capital.
Bearing deep-seated hatred and a twisted love, Yan Chen draws up a seven-year contract under the guise of “revenge,” hoping to tame Cen Ye into a canary who belongs to him alone. But he has no idea that Cen Ye is no longer the silent boy he could manipulate at will. A notebook scandal, a public-opinion onslaught, a mountain accident... The two proceed cautiously through a maze of tests where truth and lies are hard to tell, until a carefully staged “accident” nearly costs Yan Chen his life.
“You ask me why I saved you?” Yan Chen gives a hoarse, bitter laugh from his hospital bed. “Because even my hatred is just another form of loving you.”
“I once thought you were my doom. Only later did I understand that you were the one whole piece in my shattered soul.”
“If love is a gamble, I’d stake all my pride and my life for one moment of sincerity from you.”
From tormenting one another to entrusting each other with their lives, these two people lost in darkness will at last cut through the thorns and crown each other with a diadem forged in scars.
The first book in the Nancheng Three Young Masters series: Fleeting Glimmers. Content warning: Readers who prefer both leads to be sexually inexperienced should proceed with caution.
