Heiress to a financial empire x underground prizefighter
There is no winter in Nanyang. Only four things circulate here: money, power, desire, and sin.
2031, Thailand, Kongthi City.
The old district has no order. The crack of pulse rifles and the wail of sirens circle overhead, nerve agents are sold at listed prices in nightclubs, and illicit businesses reach all the way into the centers of power.
As the heiress to a financial empire and the Lin family's sole successor, Lin Tianyi had navigated the whirlpool with ease since childhood. She had never given much thought to the meaning of life.
Whatever she wanted, she got: money, power, even human lives.
It was all too easy to obtain, and holding on to it for too long was exhausting. She often thought it was all so pointless.
Until she saw that person at an underground fight club.
The fighter in the ring took down her opponent in thirty-seven seconds, and the crowd went wild.
She took a second look, then came back the next day.
She couldn't say what she wanted. Maybe she just wanted a bit of fun. After all, those eyes were truly beautiful.
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Ploy waits tables at a cafe by day and risks her life in the ring at night. She can't afford to stop. She has to make money, no matter what.
A piece of leverage from seven years ago left her saddled with a debt she could never repay. Her creditor is her "benefactor," and also a bomb waiting to go off.
She doesn't know how long she'll have to keep paying, or whether she'll ever clear the debt. She can only take each day as it comes.
She doesn't know how much longer she can hold on, either.
So when the heiress to a financial empire waits for her outside the fight club after work, Ploy realizes there may be another possibility.
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They meet in the treacherous world of Nanyang.
One thinks it's a passing whim.
The other thinks it's just an act.
But in the end, they both lose to their true feelings.
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A light cyberpunk take on Nanyang, set in an alternate future and unrelated to reality.
Theme: True feelings can't be valued
