After failing the college entrance exam and being driven to desperation by the village bully, Chen Yuanzhou dragged his suitcase onto a green train heading south.
Seventeen hours in a hard-seat carriage. All he wanted was to escape to Guancheng and start over.
Then, after midnight, the lights in the carriage went out, and a woman so beautiful she seemed unreal sat down across from him.
A slip dress, foxlike eyes, and a pale expanse of skin below her collarbone that shimmered in the dim yellow light, making his head swim. She looked at him like a little beast that had wandered into a trap, smiling, testing him, and brushing the tip of her foot against his calf.
“What are you nervous about?”
Then she stood up and glanced back at him.
The look in her eyes spelled out four clear words: Come with me.
The young man had no idea whether the step he was about to take would lead him to Guancheng, or onto a road from which there could be no return.
