He Traded the Abyss for a Glimmer

When she was six, Ruan Shixi rescued a boy with deep blue eyes from the mud in Belgium as he lay near death. The seven days they spent together were the only light in his endless darkness. That fleeting warmth became the beginning of an obsession that would consume him for the next twenty years.

After the Belmont family found him, he struggled in the depths of power, wielding cruelty as a blade and climbing on blood as he carefully seized control step by step, until he became a ruler feared by all.

For twenty years, across mountains and seas, he sought only to find the faint light that had once saved him.

When they met again, Ruan Shixi was being sold as merchandise at his Mist City club. In that moment, he went mad and razed the entire casino, willing to destroy half a lifetime of careful plans just to spare her the slightest humiliation.

He held her captive in his arms, possessive and unhinged, each word ringing with force: "Ruan Shixi, in this life, you can only be mine."

He offered the abyss as his betrothal gift and pledged the rest of his life to her. He sheathed all his violence and laid every ounce of tenderness and his supreme power before her.

When the ruler of the abyss meets the light of salvation, a possessive pursuit of love spanning twenty years begins.