When Shen Nian woke up, only Lu Jin was beside her.
An abandoned factory, surveillance cameras, and 76 million in betting chips rolling through a dark web livestream. The kidnappers threw them a script titled "Rose of the No-Man's-Land." Act One: the two of them had to kill each other to survive.
The audience behind the cameras cheered.
But he cut her ropes, wrapped his coat around her, and pointed out a window. He said, "You go first," and then an explosion swallowed everything.
Three days later, Lu Jin was missing. Shen Nian received a text message: "The final odds on the bet were 1:47. I won. Don't look for me, baby."
She deleted the message and lay back down in her hospital bed.
Outside the window, a neon sign glowed: filming preparations for the third scene of "Rose of the No-Man's-Land" were underway. Starring Shen Nian.
She suddenly remembered something: the bottle of "poison" the kidnappers had prepared was filled with vitamin pills.
He knew.
He had known before he even stepped into that factory.
