Gu Yunting, young master of the Night Gate, is a ruthless ruler feared by both the underworld and the legitimate world. Fourteen years of iron-fisted rule have built him an unshakable empire of business and crime. Yet only his younger sister, Lin Luoxi, is the object of his extreme control and twisted obsession.
The chill of the dungeon, the roar of tigers, the blood of the innocent: these are his “lessons” for her. At seven, she was imprisoned for holding a boy's hand. At thirteen, she was confined for being touched by a senior student's kindness. She thought Xie Liangwen's advances were a salvation, but they were only an even more humiliating trap. The one who personally tore that trap apart and sent the villain to hell was the brother she feared most.
He builds walls with indifference and commands fear through cruelty, yet when she loses consciousness with a high fever, he holds her close and licks the blood from her lips. He won't let anyone near her, and he won't let her escape. Even if she simply hands someone a glass of milk herself, someone will pay for it with a severed hand.
In Lin Luoxi's world, warmth is an illusion and fear is the norm. Her mother's death fourteen years ago is a nightmare she dares not touch, while Gu Yunting is an inescapable fate soaked in blood and tears. She hates his coldness and fears his cruelty, yet the rare, unconscious tenderness he shows only plunges her into deeper turmoil.
This imprisonment in the name of love, this entanglement built on torment, will ultimately become the most brutal clash between his desire for control and her will to survive.
