[Two undercover agents | Saving each other | Crime-investigation x tragic romance]
“You are a flower raised in the light. I am a ghost that crawled out of the mire.”
Xia Wanxing had two obsessions in life:
First, to become an outstanding detective like her father.
Second, to send the drug lord who murdered her father to hell with her own hands.
The day she went undercover in a drug den, she ran into Jiang Yi, the man rumored to be a ruthless playboy, yet had repeatedly saved innocent girls from his bodyguards.
He taught her how to survive in the darkness: “Here, tears are worth even less than blood.”
Yet beneath the flogging platform, he touched the corner of her eye with bloodstained fingers. “...Don't cry.”
Only later did she learn the truth:
He was the biological son of Gu Cang, the drug lord, and the police force's deepest-cover informant.
For five years, he had passed along intelligence anonymously and saved seventeen girls.
Yet he told himself, “A person like me doesn't deserve to live in the light.”
On the eve of the demolition mission, he kissed her eyes.
“Xia Wanxing, once you get out... forget me.”
As the explosion at the military factory lit up half the sky,
she clutched the farewell letter he had left behind and finally understood his entire life:
From beginning to end, he burned himself away only to help her reach the dawn he would never see.
