The Sickly-Sweet Black Lotus Secretary to Lord Fu: Wild and Untamed

[Ace black-lotus lawyer × domineering CEO with a persecution complex who’s addicted to pursuing his ex]

Her acting is flawless; he falls into her trap and plays along, all for love.

Three years ago, Jiang Ning, the youngest star lawyer in the legal world, personally sent the man she loved, Fu Jiuheng, to prison, then vanished without a trace. The whole city said she’d run away because she was afraid he’d take revenge.

Three years later, she disguises herself as Lin Niannian, a timid, sweet secretary, and infiltrates the Fu Group. But on her very first day, the man locks the coffee cup she drank from in a safe.

Fu Jiuheng, the crown prince of the capital’s elite, is a cool, Buddha-like gentleman in public and a mad dog in private. He has her name carved into his wrist and keeps three years’ worth of secretly taken photos of her on his phone. When his paranoia takes hold, he can turn the whole building upside down just to find a single strand of her hair.

Everyone in the company laughs at how timid the new secretary is, trembling whenever President Fu looks at her. No one knows that late at night in the office, the impeccably dressed man kneels on one knee and carefully wipes the dust from her high heels with his tie.

“Why are you trembling?” He kisses the tears from the corner of her eye, his voice both sickly and tender. “Are you cold, or are you afraid of me?”

Jiang Ning thinks her acting is flawless, but she doesn’t know that Fu Jiuheng saw through her disguise from day one. He plays along, waiting for her to show her hand. Then the old case is reopened, and the truth comes to light: behind that trial three years ago lies a blood feud between two great families, stretching back thirty years.

“Lawyer Jiang,” he says with a soft laugh, his eyes red as if they might bleed, laying a property deed, a share-transfer agreement, and a bloodstained ring on the table before her. “How many years are you going to sentence me to this time?”

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