A bloody case from twenty years ago turned her into a caged songbird, carefully raised by her enemies. Zhao Mingwei, the dazzling eldest daughter of the Zhao family of Jingang, is in truth the sole orphan left after her family was wiped out. After twenty years spent in disguise, she waits for the chance to burn everything to the ground. Zhao Lie, the Zhao family's most ruthless and unhinged third son, is a pleasure-seeking playboy in public and a blade wielded by those in power behind closed doors. He hides a secret: he loves her, and never as a brother loves a sister.
When an arranged marriage becomes a new cage, escape is the only way to survive. A desperate chase at three hundred kilometers per hour across a sea-crossing bridge, a cross-border flight through a rainforest where every step hides a deadly trap, a lethal game of cat and mouse with a warlord beneath Bangkok's neon lights... They hold each other's deepest secrets and most vulnerable weaknesses. Amid lies, betrayal, and bloody conspiracies, two souls forsaken by fate tear at each other, yet remain tightly entwined.
This is a high-stakes gamble to avenge their own kin, and a forbidden love twisted to its depths. As the net closes around them and the gates of hell swing open, holding on to each other is their last weapon. The flames consume their hearts, but cannot burn away love or hate, nor destroy the truth. When every disguise falls away, only sincerity and madness remain: You are my accomplice, my abyss, and the only dawn I want to protect.
