My Prey Is Always Breaking the Rules

Su Nian receives the most dangerous assignment of her career: make Lu Chen, the ruthless business judge known for his cold heart, fall for her, then personally “steal” everything from him when he loves her most.

As a top heart-thief in the Heart Domain organization, Su Nian has never failed. She specializes in avenging women who have been hurt, making the powerful men who trample on their sincerity pay the heaviest price.

This time, her target is Lu Chen, a renowned rule-maker in the business world: cold, powerful, and seemingly without a weakness. She carefully plans every chance encounter, playing the kind of woman most likely to stir his heart: fragile, innocent, and naive. She thinks her hunt is flawless.

Until he takes her to the Heart Domain’s innermost chamber and pins her against the Wall of Sins, a symbol of absolute power. Her name is clearly listed on it, with the latest note marked in glaring red: “Subject under observation: Su Nian. Threat level: S. Recent behavior: seven consecutive violations.”

He leans close, his breath brushing her ear, his voice cold as a verdict. “Pretending to be a hotel maid was your first violation. ‘Running into me’ on a stormy night was the second. Deliberately getting my coffee order wrong was the third…”

“Su Nian,” he says, his fingertip brushing her trembling lashes, “in these thirty-nine days when you thought you were carefully inching closer to me, every one of your ‘carefully planned’ moves was part of my rulebook, performed for me alone.”

“Now,” he says, letting go as a huge screen lights up behind him, revealing the full truth about her younger sister’s death, a truth she has sought for years. “The game is moving to the next level. You have two choices: keep being a ‘rule-breaking prey’ under my watch, or, ”