Polished scoundrel × clear-headed innocent beauty
Old-school melodramatic, coercive romance | The chase after she leaves | Nine-year age gap
Shen Hanfei had just turned sixteen when she was first brought before Jiang Jinlin.
Wearing her faded high school uniform, she greeted him at a servant's prompting.
She called him "Mr. Jiang" in a soft voice, timid and shy,
but her smile outshone all the spring flowers in the Jiang family garden, like a glorious flower blooming in the mortal world.
Jiang Jinlin was the head of the Jiang family of Hong Kong City, the generation's most powerful figure.
He had risen to power while young, and was stern, cold, and deeply calculating.
His dark eyes glanced at her from behind his glasses. He reminded her coolly, "By our family ties, you should call me Uncle."
*
On Shen Hanfei's eighteenth birthday, she cut the cake and personally brought it to the study.
The plate slipped, and white frosting smeared across Jiang Jinlin's suit trousers.
She hurriedly bent down to wipe it off. He suddenly pressed down hard on the back of her hand.
She looked up and met the man's dark eyes.
Jiang Jinlin remarked, "You're young, but you already know how to entice a man."
Not long before, in this very study, the eldest son of the Luo family had stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, paying no attention to business as he stared at the figure in the garden below.
*
During the coldest winter Hong Kong City had ever seen, Shen Hanfei left the Jiang family without a word.
On a snowy night in the depths of winter, she returned after a night of mischief and was horrified to see the black car parked outside her home.
There was no one inside the car.
Jiang Jinlin stood beneath the porch. The man in the shadows was darker than the night itself.
"Shen Hanfei," Jiang Jinlin said, grinding out his cigarette with his fingertips. "Why didn't you run farther away?"
No one knew that during all those years in the Jiang household, Shen Hanfei had never spent a single night sleeping in her own room.
From the first moment Jiang Jinlin saw her,
he had wanted to break her bones and devour her flesh.
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