When Twilight Speaks

The day the Gu family of Linjiang sent their wedding proposal to the Lin family, the older sister disappeared. She left a letter asking her younger sister, Lin Wantang, to take her place and marry the man in the wheelchair.

Everyone said Gu Tingshen was a crippled tyrant. Among Linjiang’s society ladies, one saying was well known: “Marry anyone but a Gu. And if you do marry into the Gu family, don’t marry Gu Tingshen.”

But nobody knew that this was exactly the chance Lin Wantang had been waiting for.

She was the top student in the forensic science department, and the strange crescent-moon emblem on Gu Tingshen’s wrist was identical to the one in the last photo her best friend, Su Nian, had sent before disappearing. To uncover the truth, she entered the Gu residence under her sister’s identity. The man in the wheelchair watched her coldly, then tossed her a contract for a marriage of convenience on their wedding night.

He thought she was just a pawn he could discard at will.

She thought he was simply an enemy she needed to be wary of.

Then she was caught sneaking into his study, and the sound of the wheelchair’s wheels stopped behind her. The man’s low voice carried a knowing laugh. “Lin Wantang, I’ve been waiting a long time for you to make your move.”

It turned out he had known from the beginning that she wasn’t her sister.

It turned out his disability was an act, his brutality a disguise, and his cold indifference part of a much bigger game.

And she was the blade he had been waiting for to break the deadlock.