A Pact with Sin

Gu Yening is the heir to the Gu family, standing at the very top of the pyramid. Cold, ruthless, and obsessive, she has possessiveness etched into her bones. A childhood deprived of love and the shadow of school bullying have left her desperately insecure. The only person she remembers is the kind upperclasswoman who held an umbrella over her on a rainy night years ago, the sole light in her heart.

Three years ago, an operation took her father’s life. The surgeon was Shen Qingci, once a genius who had shaken the medical world. The mistake ruined Shen Qingci’s reputation and sent her crashing from the heights into the dust. Cold and proud, she has carried a guilt she can never repay ever since.

Seeking revenge, Gu Yening threatens Shen Qingci with the lives of her family and forcibly keeps the fallen doctor at her side, making her sign a deeply humiliating master-servant contract. She uses her power to degrade her and her control to wound her, pouring out all her hatred and obsession. Yet as they spend day after day together, she loses control and finds herself drawn to Shen Qingci.

Shen Qingci bears the burden of a life taken. She knows the other woman is a demon come to claim her life, yet her own guilt keeps her from fighting back completely. Cool and resilient, she struggles again and again, only to be dragged back into the abyss by Gu Yening’s almost pathological possessiveness.

No one knows that the enemy Gu Yening hates most is the very upperclasswoman she has spent years searching for, the one who once brought light to her bleak youth. Hatred and obsession intertwine, possession and guilt pull at each other, and a captivity that began as revenge gradually becomes a twisted, unforgettable love.

A love that cuts to the bone, unyielding even in death. They cling to each other over one another’s wounds. A mad, obsessive love-hate affair, forbidden and profound, begins.