They told her her baby was dead. They lied.

Dr. Mao Song was one of the best neurosurgeons in the country until the night her husband died, her life was destroyed, and she was buried alive inside a prison cell for a murder she didn't commit.

Eighteen months later, Mao has learned the only way to survive prison is to let parts of herself die first.

Then Wu Jing comes for her.

Ruthless. patient. impossible to escape. The powerful head of the Red Phoenix Triad tears her out of prison and into a world of blood debts, surveillance, and buried secrets. He says he needs her to save his son.

Then Mao discovers the truth that shatters everything:

Her child never died.

Now the man holding her freedom is also the man standing between her and the son stolen from her. Wu Jing is dangerous, manipulative, and tied to the betrayal that destroyed her life. But the deeper Mao is dragged into his world, the clearer it becomes that nothing about her past was random - and no one has told her the full truth.

To get her son back, Mao will have to outsmart the people who framed her, survive the man who obsesses over her, and decide how much of her soul she's willing to lose for justice.

Because in Wu Jing's world, love is not gentle. It is possession. protection. ruin. And the closer Mao gets to the truth, the more impossible it becomes to hate the man she should want dead.