Ruan Qingzi’s life is a carefully calculated transaction.
As Mrs. Pei, her only duty is to play along with her husband in name and act like a jealous, unhinged shrew, staging scenes of “catching him in the act” again and again at banquets watched by the entire city. A ruined reputation? She doesn’t care. It is simply the price of the contract she signed with the devil to protect her father.
Then, one night, the lights went out in the penthouse suite atop the Burj Al Arab.
In the darkness, she collided with a pair of eyes so deep she could not see their bottom. Shao Yanci, a business-world king as revered as a Greek god, whose decisions could determine who lived and who died, invaded her false life with overwhelming force.
A chance encounter born of a twist of fate opened the curtain on their intertwined destinies.
He saw through the fragility and sharpness beneath her perfect performance; she discerned the loneliness and need for control beneath his cold, hard mask. From then on, a true hunter entered their marriage, a game of pretense and false affection.
When a marriage of convenience meets a heart stirred by fate, and carefully laid plans encounter an uncontrollable variable,
in this dangerous game where true feelings are the stakes, who will be the first to drop their mask? And who has been carefully plotting every step, determined to carve that stubborn figure into the one and only love of their life?
