【Two Male Leads + Angsty Romance + Love and Hate + Fated Entanglement + Intense Push and Pull + Rivals-to-Lovers Couple + Criminal Investigation and Undercover Work】
〖Yan Xu × Jiang Lai〗
〖Obsessive, sinister, unhinged top × cool-headed, upright, ambitious bottom〗
Yan Xu and Zhou Che met when they were young and loved each other for seven years. They were the closest of childhood friends, the most in-sync of lovers, and the most dangerous of partners. The bar they ran together was always full of customers, and never short of undercurrents... Every deal bore both their names. Distant in public, entangled in private. Yan Xu thought he controlled their relationship. Zhou Che thought he could keep playing his part a little longer. Until Detective Jiang Lai set his sights on them.
Yan Xu asked to speak with Jiang Lai alone and laid everything bare: the crimes, the accounts, and his relationship with Zhou Che. He had only one condition: he would take all the blame if Zhou Che were released. Jiang Lai agreed.
But Zhou Che, who always thought of Yan Xu first and loved him enough to give his life for him, changed his testimony at that very moment... In court, Yan Xu’s elite legal team shifted all the blame onto Zhou Che. Yan Xu was acquitted, while Zhou Che was sentenced to twelve years.
Zhou Che thought that once he was in prison, he could live in peace. But someone still saw him as a thorn in their side. Four months later, something happened to Zhou Che in prison. The only person he saw before he died was Jiang Lai.
Yan Xu went mad. He hated Jiang Lai, the person who had set the trap, and the person who had personally pushed Zhou Che into the abyss. He kidnapped Jiang Lai and imprisoned him in the basement of a villa halfway up the mountain, torturing him day after day. He did not want him dead; he wanted him to wish he were.
And in this hell, Jiang Lai began his final mission: stay by Yan Xu’s side and gather evidence.
