Runaway Mommy and Her Adorable Baby

The year she turned twenty-four changed her life.

That night was both an act of abandon and a carefully laid plan.

When she left, she abandoned everything here, but took with her the most meaningful thing in her life.

Six years later, she returns a completely changed woman. When she discovers that the truth about what happened back then was far more complicated than she'd been led to believe, she resolves to avenge her father with her own hands and make everyone who hurt them pay.

But just as she builds walls around her heart and shuts away her feelings, that little man keeps breaking through without her even realizing it.

Excerpt One: "Get your paws off me, or I'll bite you to death." Trying to steady her breathing, Liu Xixi spoke irritably.

But the man didn't release her. Instead, he suddenly tightened his grip around her waist, swiftly lifted her skirt, and laid his hand on her without the slightest restraint. He remembered the bewitchingly beautiful red spider lily tattooed there, also known as the flower of the other shore.

The red spider lily was etched onto that mysterious place, its petals a vivid red, its seductive color blooming as if it would merge with her very flesh and blood.

Excerpt Two: "Xixi, never leave me!" I never want to know what it feels like to lose you again.

Liu Xixi looked at the man who loved her with every fiber of his being and nodded through her tears. "I promise!"