Forbidden Deep Kiss: Mr. Huo’s Canary in a Gilded Cage

[Two male leads + forced love + intense push and pull + regret and a desperate pursuit]

“Xie Yan, who in this city of Haijing would dare take you away?”

On a rainy night, lightning split the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of Haijing's tallest building. Huo Tingxiao's long fingers clamped around the young man's chin, gripping so hard it seemed he would crush it.

Xie Yan's eyes were red at the corners, two buttons torn from his shirt. His voice broke apart as he pleaded, “Huo Tingxiao, the stand-in contract has expired. Please, try acting like a decent human being...”

Huo Tingxiao leaned in, his warm breath brushing Xie Yan's sensitive ear. His voice was as low as a demon's. “Who told you that was a contract? It was a deed of sale. Go on, run. Let's see if you can get out of this building before you're crying and begging me to hold you.”

A month later, Xie Yan was “reduced to nothing but ashes” in a fire.

The aloof Huo, a man who had never once bowed his head, went mad. He dug through the ruins with his bare hands for three days and nights, his fingers bloody and raw.

Three years later, newly famous top-tier star Xie Yan returned to the country.

At the after-party for a televised gala watched by hundreds of millions, the once-arrogant man fell to his knees at Xie Yan's feet and tremulously kissed the tip of his shoe. “Xie Yan, I'll give you my life. Please, just look at me.”