Nightfall Is Like a Blade

Synopsis:

My nemesis's fiancée became the addiction I couldn't quit.

-- Yin Jianing

Gu Jingzhou always said I was like the wind, impossible to catch. He hated my freedom and my coldness.

Until I showed up again at his engagement party.

The guests whispered that I was the past he could never erase.

But from beginning to end, my gaze rested only on his cool, stunning bride-to-be, Lan Zhiyu.

She held a champagne glass and looked across at me, her eyes like an ice-tempered blade.

No one knew that this "blade" had already carved itself inch by inch into my very bones.

-- Lan Zhiyu

After weighing every advantage and disadvantage, Gu Jingzhou was the perfect person for me to marry.

Everyone said I was levelheaded and formidable, a ruthless hunter in the business world.

Until that chaotic night, when a stranger, drunk and fragrant, stumbled into my arms beneath the bar's hazy lights.

She lost my limited-edition watch, and I found her precious necklace.

One mistaken kiss set all reason ablaze.

After a reckless night, we parted at dawn without even knowing each other's names.

I thought it was just an unexpected interlude in life, destined to be forgotten.

Until I saw her photo on my fiancé's phone.

The caption read: "Yin Jianing: the greatest regret of my life."

The story begins on that night at the bar:

The lights swayed, and the burn of whiskey snapped the thread of reason.

Yin Jianing lost the necklace that was her mother's only keepsake, while Lan Zhiyu misplaced the limited-edition watch that marked her status.

Two tipsy women, stumbling about as they searched, accidentally let their lips meet.

Lan Zhiyu froze, then stifled her racing heart. "Miss, you're drunk."

Yin Jianing clung to her, her eyes hazy as mist. "Don't go... please? I'll do anything you want."

As the alcohol rose to their heads, promises and boundaries collapsed together, pulling two strangers into a burning whirlpool.

They met again in a hospital corridor heavy with the smell of disinfectant.

Yin Jianing had just left the examination room, one hand against her forehead, when she came face-to-face with Lan Zhiyu, surrounded by people and radiating authority.

Their eyes met, and fragments of the previous night came flooding back.

Lan Zhiyu didn't break stride, as if they had never met. But as she passed, she left Yin Jianing with a line only the two of them could hear:

"Miss Yin, your necklace... is just as unforgettable as my fiancé's ex-girlfriend."

From then on, a dangerous game began, born of a mistake and tangled up in revenge, testing, and fatal attraction.

She is Gu Jingzhou's unattainable ex-girlfriend, a former supermodel with a commanding, mature aura who treats life like a game.

She is Gu Jingzhou's perfect fiancée, the president of a corporation, composed and self-possessed, in control of everything.

But when their gazes become entangled once more...

Who will become the other's prey first?

And who will ultimately steal whose heart?

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