“Zhou Yanli, you’re the perfect gentleman and the most uncontrollable tyrant.”
Zhou Yanli, heir to the Zhou family of Nancheng and a legend in the legal world. His life is governed by the strictest rules: his suits are always immaculate, his emotions never show, and everyone knows him as “Mr. Zhou.”
He has everything and controls everything. Until he meets Xie Zhiyuan, the “blade” who was cast out by the Xie family and has now returned to exact revenge.
Radiant and cunning, Xie Zhiyuan is like an untamable wildfire. She comes back with a shocking secret and a clear goal: bring down the Xie family and, while she’s at it, tease the famously woman-averse Mr. Zhou, making him the most dazzling piece in her plan.
At first, it’s a mutually understood game of using one another.
She sets fire to the edges of his orderly world, while he watches coldly, seeing through every scheme she makes. Now and then, he “plays along,” stepping into her trap, convinced he has everything under control.
Things spiral out of control one rainy night. After delivering a fatal blow to the Xie family, she stands drenched and smiles at him with carefree abandon. “Mr. Zhou, the show’s over. Our partnership is done.”
At that moment, Zhou Yanli calmly removes his gold-rimmed glasses, blurred by the rain. He sees the light of victory in her eyes, and finally recognizes the beast roaring deep inside him, the one called “possession.”
“Zhiyuan,” he says, gently wiping a raindrop from her cheek, though his tone chills her to the bone, “there is no such thing as ‘over’ in my life.”
And so the hunt begins.
He is no longer a distant observer, but a master strategist, advancing one step at a time. He cuts off every escape route, swallows up the prey she has set her sights on, and at every place she might land,
