Love Entangled in a Game of Intrigue

One is the cherished daughter of a powerful Qing Gang boss, the other a nobody slowly climbing the ranks.

“Why don’t you dare admit that you like me?”

“We come from two different worlds.”

On a stormy night, she screamed the question at him, beside herself with anguish.

“I once thought we’d be together forever. Now it seems I was just putting on a one-person show.”

Just as they finally weathered every storm and were about to be together, the cinnabar brush that wrote their fate changed color.