[Power couple] [He chases her after losing her] [She runs away while pregnant] [Younger man and older woman] [Angst before sweetness]
She owes him a lifetime of repayment
International mercenary N is a name known throughout the underworld. She’s a master of firearms and hand-to-hand combat, and police forces from around the world are clamoring to hire her as a consultant.
But nobody knows that in private, this big shot is a shut-in who rides a beat-up motorcycle, wears an old man’s undershirt, and squats by the roadside to wolf down a savory pancake.
Even fewer know that she accepted a lucrative contract to kill the refined young doctor from the Xie family.
She took the deposit, then turned around and saved him.
Xie Wanting asks coldly, “Whose side are you on, anyway?”
She grins. “Whichever side pays more. But when it comes to you, I just can’t bring myself to do it.”
One night, an accident gives her the chance to take advantage of him in a hotel. She has her way with him, then runs at dawn after saying, “I’m sorry.”
Later, while pregnant and heading to a checkup, she runs into him.
He stares at her slightly rounded trench coat, expressionless. “You’ve put on weight.”
She shoves the report into her pocket. “Abdominal fluid. I had it drained.”
“I’m a medical student.”
“...”
A dirt-poor mercenary heroine with off-the-charts combat skills and a uniquely strange way of thinking × a refined, obsessive doctor hero with a spotless romantic past
Content note: The male lead once had a fiancée with whom he shared mutual affection, but it wasn’t love. He was projecting his feelings for his mother, who died young.
