[Redemption and power games | Flirtatious tension | A scheming blind boss x an assistant who plays the pig to eat the tiger]
He Yu'an was once the opera world’s brightest rising star, dazzling every audience with a sweep of his water sleeves.
An accident left him blind, and his world plunged into eternal night. He rejected all sunlight and touch, like an iceberg frozen solid from within.
Everyone said He Yu'an was finished.
Then Shen Zhijie, a “mute” woman, applied for the highly paid job of his personal assistant and barged into his darkness. She pretended to be mute, speaking to him through a cold electronic voice. She was vulgar and unabashed about wanting his money: “You’re a high-return, high-risk investment.” She was lewd, constantly testing the limits of how far she could tease him.
He Yu'an sneered at her. “A girl should have some self-respect.”
But she grabbed his hand and pressed it against her cheek. Her electronic voice was calm and sharp: You’d better watch yourself! After all, I HAVE NO SELF-RESPECT!
He shut out the whole world, but she insisted on leading him into the sunlight.
“Come take a walk with me.”
“I… take you… for a walk…” He unconsciously turned the ring on his little finger. The Braille markings on the inside of the band dug into his fingertip. “You want a blind man… to take you for a walk? Who’s supposed to be taking care of whom?”
By day, she was his “eyes,” helping him step by step out of the darkness.
By night, she was the only light in his dreams, illuminating the pain no one else dared to touch.
She was the only light bold enough to barge into the endless darkness around him and run wild.
What he didn’t know was that this woman, who laughed as though she had not a care in the world, had lost her mother giving birth to her. Her father saw her as a jinx, and the only person who had ever protected her, her older brother, was gone.
Broken in every way, she still dared to try to warm this block of ice.
