[Tragic ending and heart-wrenching romance | A scoundrel’s sincere love | Suspenseful romance | Love and hate intertwined]
High-IQ strategist (female) × poker-faced mastermind (male)
Note: The romance is the focus, with suspense as a secondary element. The suspense is especially prominent in the first ten chapters.
When An Xun made that phone call, she had no idea the person answering had been replaced long ago.
“Gong Yuling, I need your help.”
“You have the wrong number.”
He hung up. The next day, she was summoned to a teahouse. The man seated by the window looked up, his brow ridge high and sharply defined. His frank gaze swept over her face.
“You asked for my brother. You said you know what happened at No. 3 Middle School in 2000.”
He leaned back in his chair.
“What could be worth a woman risking her life for?”
She thought she held the last card. He thought he had picked up a disposable pawn.
Later, Gong Yao knelt in the snow at Duchen Temple for three days.
The abbot asked him who he had come for.
He opened his mouth, but couldn’t answer.
That pawn was the only thing he had ever lost in his life.
