The rules of Nancheng are simple: connections and power are your passport.
Li Nanzhou is the rule itself: the young head of the Li Group, a man who commands influence in both the lawful and criminal worlds, ruthless and merciless. After seeing the truth of the world at his mother's funeral at the age of seventeen, he never again allowed anyone to truly get close to him. Outsiders called him "Nancheng's most expensive living corpse," and he never denied it.
Gu Qinyao did not believe in those rules. Carrying a design proposal that exceeded the budget by twenty percent, she stood before the man no one in the city could afford to offend and said, "I'm doing the 'right' thing." For the first time, Li Nanzhou nodded.
He thought it was merely an ordinary business partnership, never expecting that he would begin appearing at her side again and again under all sorts of clumsy pretexts.
He could not tell whether this was his first genuine attraction in ten years, or whether his long-standing possessiveness had simply taken on a more dangerous name.
And she knew very clearly that once she nodded, she would never be able to return to the world where she relied only on herself.
Two proud people who refused to lower their heads first gradually moved toward an ending neither of them could have imagined, through one open and covert clash after another.
Matched opponents, and matched hearts.
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