The last winter

At seventeen, Zhou Yan learned that survival came at a price.

After losing his mother, he is dragged into the brutal underground fighting world, taking every fight he can get to keep the bills paid and his past buried. Years later, the scars remain-and so do the secrets.

Then there is Lin Wan, a 22 year old fresh graduate desperately trying to keep her beautiful open air café bar afloat while searching for the corporate job she has always wanted.

She has no time for trouble.

Unfortunately, trouble walks straight through her door.

When Lin Wan mistakes Zhou Yan for the new worker she hired, a simple misunderstanding spirals into an arrangement neither of them expected and somehow ends with them living under the same roof.

He is guarded.
She is stubborn.
He keeps secrets.
She asks far too many questions.

What begins as an inconvenient arrangement slowly becomes something neither of them knows how to name.

But Zhou Yan's past was never truly left behind. The underground world he once fought to escape is closing in again, bringing with it enemies, unanswered questions, and a danger Lin Wan knows nothing about.

Because falling for Zhou Yan may be the easiest thing Lin Wan does.

Keeping him alive and keeping herself safe might be another story entirely.

And when the truth finally catches up with them, they will have to decide.

How much are they willing to lose for the person they never meant to love?