Long-planned scheme | Older man/younger woman | Underworld | Revenge | Both leads are romantically inexperienced; one-on-one
[Abstinent crime boss who rules both the legitimate and underworld worlds x resilient heroine, gentle on the outside and strong-willed within]
(Nine-year age gap. A sweet ending guaranteed, no angst. If I’m lying, I’m a puppy.)
Four years later,
Shen Yutang saw her former lover’s older brother, Yan Tingzhou, again at the birthday banquet for her fiancé Zuo Yunnian’s grandfather.
Once a down-and-out teacher who had come to her family’s door on a rainy night, begging her father for help,
he now ruled both the legitimate and criminal worlds, domineering and ruthless in his decisions.
Holding a gun, he said to her, “A-Tang, come sit beside me.”
At the same time, he brought the Yan family massacre to light and took aim at the Zuo family,
forcing her to make concession after concession for her fiancé, until she finally married him...
Yan Tingzhou believed this marriage was one he had forced upon her.
In truth, the best hunters often appear in the guise of their prey.
He had never truly meant to use her as bait,
but from the very beginning, she had seen him only as a blade in her hand,
to cut through her decaying family and strike down the culprit who drove her older sister to suicide.
Two ambitious people conspiring in silence, their paths ultimately converging
[Everything in this story is fictional, set in an imagined world.]
(Please read the story itself; this synopsis doesn't do it justice.)
