Luring Her into His Heart

He Jinhui sees Shen Ning again at a private hot spring owned by a friend.

A pursuer has set the sky ablaze with fireworks to win her smile.

The young girl has skin as fair as jade. She tilts her head and smiles prettily at her friend, her unpowdered features captivating and touched with obedient sweetness.

His friend, who has always understood his thoughts, teases him.

"Third Brother, who caught your eye? Want to take her home and look at her slowly?"

As light and shadow shift, the man who has always been surrounded by admirers, noble and gentle,

feels that layer of slow, devouring desire stir in his eyes for the first time.

The third time he sees her is at a banquet hosted by the Shen family.

The young girl wears an ill-fitting gown. Even after being ignored, she remains quietly in a corner, eating in silence, a touch of sly determination shining in her eyes.

The man watches the various men gathered around her.

He tugs at his tie with one hand, his lowered brows and eyes revealing a chilling darkness.

In the fifteenth year after the Shen family moved to Xucheng, they hold a banquet that rocks high society.

The Shen family's three daughters are all outstanding, yet none of them manages to catch the eye of He Jinhui, the heir apparent of the top-tier He family.

The guests at the banquet mock them mercilessly.

How could someone from a family like the Shen family ever hope to reach the position at the side of the head of the topmost He family?

No one sees He Jinhui stop the Shen family's adopted daughter, who lives under another family's roof, in a corner of the rear garden.

His voice carries a hint of seduction in the depths of the night.

"Come to my side, and you can trample every one of them beneath your feet."

The fingertips he extends are wrapped in the misty haze of the deep night, alluring and intoxicating...

On her twentieth birthday, Shen Ning defies convention and travels to the northernmost point of the earth.

When heavy snow seals off the mountains, she meets a man warming himself alongside sled dogs.

She thinks it is merely a fleeting affair, but when they meet again,

that man is standing at the pinnacle of power she needs most...

The hero's perspective: coercion and conquest, an extreme push and pull

The heroine's perspective: secretly tempting him while patiently plotting her way forward…