Restrained in Public, Surrendering in Private

[Both leads are sexually inexperienced + intense push and pull + secret watching and guarding + possessive obsession + mutual salvation]

A powerful, self-restrained man who clawed his way back from the abyss × a cool-headed, obsessive legal beauty willing to risk her life

To investigate a missing-person cold case, public-interest lawyer Chu Yao goes undercover at an exclusive club.

When thugs make trouble and her life hangs in the balance, the man who disappeared ten years ago arrives like a demon from hell and saves her with ruthless force.

He is the light she has searched for over the past ten years, yet in front of everyone, he grips her chin, mocks her coldly, and forcefully disavows their relationship.

Everyone thinks Mr. Huo has cast aside that woman who doesn’t know her place.

But they don’t know that at three in the morning, he picks the lock on her apartment and gazes at her sleeping face like an obsessive thief, his eyes red as he destroys every trace left by other men.

He believes the dark world he inhabits has rotted him to the core. Afraid he will drag her down with him, he can only protect her in the dead of night by the most extreme and cruel means.

He thinks he can push her away, never realizing that Chu Yao has already seen through his disguise.

She uses herself as bait, closing in step by step. On a stormy night, she clings to his car door and backs this arrogant man into a corner.

He clings to the last of his self-control, eyes bloodshot as he roars, “Yaoyao, everything in my past is a dead end. Don’t come near me!”

But Chu Yao doesn’t back down. Smiling, she rises on tiptoe and kisses the corner of his trembling lips.

“Perfect. Then I’ll go with you and carve a bloody path out of that dead end.”