[Two Male Leads] [Sweet Romance] [Assassin] [Power Couple] [Happy Ending]
Let me say this again: the one he loves is the love of his life himself. Not a stand-in! Not a replacement!
At a private banquet late at night, the crystal chandelier abruptly went dark, and gunshots tore through the music and laughter.
As everyone screamed and covered their heads, top tycoon Pei Linyue sat perfectly still on the velvet sofa, letting the darkness swallow his immaculate suit.
*
"Aren't you afraid, Mr. Pei?"
A cool voice sounded right beside his ear, a gun muzzle pressed to his lower back.
Pei Linyue chuckled in the darkness and caught the other man's wrist with uncanny precision.
That wrist had once shielded him from drinks at his birthday banquet and changed the cold cloth on his forehead when he had a high fever.
And every time he gazed at a photograph of his long-dead first love, those lashes had drooped just like the person in the picture's.
*
"What's so funny?"
The assassin Cen Shuxu, who had been posing as a replacement, breathed unevenly.
"You." Pei Linyue tilted up his chin, his breath brushing those beautiful yet rigid fox eyes.
"In the past three months, you've poisoned my coffee seven times, sabotaged my car four times, and taken two shots at me in my bedroom..."
"If you knew all that, why did you keep me around?"
*
The gilded wall lights suddenly flickered back on. Pei Linyue leisurely wrapped the tie around Cen Shuxu's gun hand, then kissed his trembling Adam's apple in the sudden brightness.
"Because the moment you approached me disguised as a replacement, you were destined to become the love of my life."
