At twenty-nine, she is the head of cardiac surgery at a top-tier hospital and the vice president of the Huaguo Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Her medical skills carry on generations of family tradition. She can save countless patients, but she can't protect her own family.
Her uncle seized power from the family, and her parents died unjustly. Her younger brother was in danger overseas and survived, but lost both legs above the knee. Now he is confined to a care facility, living in isolation.
The evidence from the old case has vanished, and her enemies have gone far away. She can save others with a scalpel, but she can't heal the devastating wounds to the bodies and minds of her loved ones.
To find cutting-edge bionic sensor prosthetic technology and give her brother a glimmer of hope that he might stand again, she travels to Yucheng, a coastal trade city-state in Nanyang.
There, she meets thirty-three-year-old Le Lan de Valier.
A scion of an old F-country aristocratic family and a Nanyang clan, he is the head of a publicly listed conglomerate, president of the Yucheng Chamber of Commerce, and holds the keys to a wealth of top medical projects.
At their first meeting, he sets his sights on this resilient, coolly elegant flower of the East, testing her step by step as he slowly lays out his bargaining chips.
Capital is his ticket in; the human heart is the board on which he plays.
He holds the leads she desperately needs to the technology and sees the vulnerability beneath her hard shell.
Shangguan Ying has long understood the cost and benefits. Every gift comes with a price tag, and she will never give her heart away lightly.
No fate delivered from above, no moth flying into a flame.
Two scarred adults develop restrained feelings as they maneuver through exchanges of mutual interest.
As needles rise and fall and the wind sweeps over Nanyu, they test each other at the boundary between light and darkness, slowly drawing closer.
[Powerful leads in a battle of wits | Exchange of value | Slow-burn tension | Realistic setting]
Mixed-heritage international power broker x coolly elegant doctor of Chinese and Western medicine
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