He is Zhang Qishan’s most trusted adjutant, a member of the Northeastern Zhang family, and the sharpest blade in Changsha.
Zhang Rishan is refined and handsome, with a little canine tooth showing when he smiles. With his fringed epaulets, slender waist, and long legs, he looks like a harmless rabbit. But everyone knows this rabbit will smile as he burns down your merchant guild, then serve you dish after dish of Hunan cuisine and baijiu, making you eat whether you like it or not.
Changsha at night is never short on secrets. But when a woman of unknown origins suddenly appears in his restricted zone, Zhang Rishan feels for the first time that things are beyond his control.
No identity, no background, no past. She seems to have sprung from a crack in a rock, yet dares to act as outrageously as she pleases right in front of him. She wrecks his office, threatens him with a jade Buddha, and says with a cheerful smile, “You’ll find out before you die.”
He searches all of Changsha and combs through every household register, but the woman vanishes like a drop of water swallowed by the Xiang River, leaving no trace.
“You have no background. That’s very strange.”
“Adjutant Zhang, are you keeping me because I’m dangerous, or because you can’t bear to let me go?”
From the Department of Military and Political Affairs to the pear garden, from the Nine Gates to the Xiang River, Zhang Rishan closes in step by step, only to find himself caught in a game he never saw coming. She pays Chen Pi a hundred coins to kill him, but not to take his life, only to hold him back. She acts fragile on the surface, but secretly draws maps. She smiles like a fox and hides like a cat.
And he, of all people, doesn’t want to let her go.
In chaotic Changsha, the winds of change are brewing. This is a contest of hidden cards and true feelings, schemes and surrender.
Zhang Rishan has never lost, but this time, he has met the greatest variable of his life.
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