A Fateful Meeting in the Capital

The heiress of a prominent family X the Macau power broker caught in circumstances beyond his control

Guiding older man and younger woman / mutual choice / faking her death to escape for love / both devoted to each other / long-planned scheme

After her parents' deaths, the glamorous and elegant Ji Wu follows the trail to Macau, where she unexpectedly finds Xie Zhi, a power broker with ties to their deaths. She befriends him and uses him to uncover the truth, never realizing that every clue was bait he had laid out. From the first moment he saw her, he had been plotting to make her his.

She is unlike an ordinary rose, and unlike a hard-to-pin-down floribunda. She is more like a wild rose, forever ablaze with passion.

“Mr. Liar, I love you.”

“I willingly entered your ‘scam compound.’”

“Whatever she says, you will obey without question.”

Everyone thinks she depends on a man, never realizing that he is the one who depends on her.

“My wife married beneath her station to be with me. It's the greatest blessing of my life...”

“You're willing to use me. At least that means I matter to you.”

“Jin'an was the name my mother gave me. I've almost forgotten that I'm Xie Jin'an...”

“No, you're just you. You don't have to be Xie Zhi or Xie Jin'an...”