[Revenge-seeking heroine and smiling schemer] [Secret rendezvous]
Late one night, more than a decade ago, a raging fire consumed an entire village.
A brutal massacre took everything from Dongli, leaving her without a single family member.
She and three other children had been hidden by adults in an underground cellar. Separated from the massacre by nothing but thin wooden boards, they were forced to hear their loved ones' screams and watch helplessly as the attackers walked away.
The four surviving children grew up relying on one another in an orphanage, bound by a blood oath to avenge their families at any cost.
More than a decade passed. The fugitives who had slaughtered the village formed the Black Serpent, a powerful criminal gang at the top of the police's wanted list, still committing crime after crime.
The gang's leader, Song Kui, was the very man who had led the massacre and killed Dongli's family.
To take revenge, Dongli erased her past and infiltrated the Black Serpent's territory, doing everything she could to get close to Song Kui.
On the night her chance finally came, Dongli carefully made herself up before the mirror. But the man who opened her door wasn't Song Kui. It was Qin San, the sharpest blade in Song Kui's hands.
Pine Moon Pond became a secret, unspoken meeting place for Dongli and Qin San.
Whenever Dongli came here, it meant she needed something from him.
And Qin San had already set the price: her body.
Their entanglement was a transaction that suited them both, hidden from outsiders and known only to the two of them.
Every meeting by the pond was woven with probing glances and private desire, an unspoken cycle that never ended.
(Double undercover agents)
