[Two top lawyers | Archrivals | Secret relationship | Unrequited love turned on its head]
In the courthouse corridor, she cursed him out so badly he was trending online.
Everyone in the legal world knew that Ye Lu and Qi Zhibai were archrivals. Their families had been enemies for twenty years, and whenever they met, they went at each other without yielding an inch.
No one knew that just the night before, his hand had been clasped around the back of her neck.
The two of them privately signed an agreement with three rules: no chatting, no spending the night, and no being seen together.
Ye Lu took it as a simple arrangement between consenting adults. She'd been annoyed by him for over a decade, and he was exactly her type. No loss there.
Until an old case was reopened: the butterfly hairpin she'd lost as a child had been hidden in his drawer for over a decade; the case that had made her famous had more to it than met the eye; even this "accident" was part of his years-long plan to get close to her.
This wasn't an out-of-court settlement.
It was a cold-faced prosecutor's long-planned declaration of war at close quarters.
