[Dangerous relationship + rekindled love + ruthless wife-stealing + a powerful man bows to love]
Wen Ran escaped the predatory clutches of northern Myanmar, abandoned the lover who had shared her hardships, and married into one of the capital’s powerful families, buying herself five years of peace.
When they met again five years later, the man she had once treated as worthless had become her brother-in-law, at least in name.
He trapped her in a corner, ran his fingertips over her carefully composed, docile face, and smiled with dark amusement. “You used me as a stepping stone and treated me like a dog back then. Now it’s my turn!”
All of the capital laughed at her for courting death by provoking its most ruthless devil.
No one knew that this revenge, carried out in the name of hatred, had long since become an obsession that would end only in death.
Someone saw it with their own eyes:
In a dim alley, he held her tightly in his arms, eyes bloodshot, his voice hoarse and desperate. “Wen Ran, leave him and come with me.”
“I hate you to the bone, and I love you to the point of madness. Outside the bedroom, I’ll never let you suffer the slightest grievance.”
This time, he didn’t want them to call it even. He wanted her, and he wanted her heart, even if they had to go down together…
