Intro. I was raised on broken promises and gunpowder.
The woman who adopted me—Fu Lung-sang's ex-wife—taught me that loyalty was not virtue, but strategy. In their world, loving was a luxury that cost one's life, and trust... an elegant way to die.
I grew up learning to lie without blinking, to disappear before being seen, to erase names from systems as if they had never breathed.
I didn't have a past, just my orders.
I met him on a mission. Hu Feng.
His reputation preceded him: the quietest thief in the circle, the shadow that even bullets seemed to respect.
We didn't exchange any words. He worked with surgical precision; me, with cold devotion. But a single look, a second of recognition, was enough for me to understand something that I refused to admit:
In his silence there was something that called me by my name.
I didn't come to fall in love.
I came to fulfill a mission.
But in this world, even the clearest orders can be tainted with desire.
“Shadows don't lie”