I waited for him for seventeen years. He crossed oceans for me—yet called another woman his girlfriend. Heartbroken and humiliated, I returned home thinking I had lost everything. But I never expected his brother to be the one who noticed my pain. Cold. Powerful. Untouchable. The man everyone feared became the only one who protected me. He said we should keep our distance. But every time I fell apart, he was there. When I was abandoned by the man I loved, his brother became the man who loved me back—silently, dangerously, and without permission.

Su Mianmian loved Tang Yunzheng for ten years. Everyone knew it. Except him. On her twentieth birthday, she thought he was finally going to confess to her. Instead, he introduced another woman as his girlfriend—right in front of everyone. “My girlfriend, Lin Jiaojiao.” In that moment, Su Mianmian realized she had been nothing more than a joke. When her best friend angrily asked him what she meant to him, Tang Yunzheng simply laughed. “Her? She’s just my childhood friend.” Heartbroken and humiliated, Su Mianmian walked away from the man she had loved for years. But that night, someone else noticed her tears. Gu Yizhou. Cold, powerful, and impossibly handsome—the man who also happened to be her sister’s fiancé. While everyone thought he was distant and untouchable, he quietly stepped into her life. He defended her when she was wronged. He comforted her when she cried. And slowly… he began looking at her in a way no one else ever had. But there was one problem. He was supposed to marry her sister. And just when Su Mianmian decided to forget love forever, the two men suddenly realized something they had ignored for years. One regretted losing her. The other refused to let her go. Now Su Mianmian must decide— Should she forgive the man she once loved… or risk everything for the one who has always protected her?

She thought death was the end. Instead, it was a wedding. After a fatal accident that should have erased her from existence, an ordinary human woman wakes up in the Underworld—alive, breathing, and legally bound by an ancient contract as the wife of the Grim Reaper himself. A marriage meant to stabilize the balance between life and death. A union with no love, no escape, and no choice. The Grim Reaper is cold, immortal, and feared across realms. He doesn’t kill out of cruelty—he kills because it is his duty. Emotions are unnecessary. Attachment is forbidden. Humans are fleeting. She is none of those things. Stubborn, sharp-tongued, and terrifyingly alive, she refuses to behave like a pawn in the Underworld’s politics. She wants answers. She wants freedom. And she wants to survive a realm that was never meant to tolerate warmth. What begins as a purely contractual marriage slowly fractures the rules of the Underworld. The more she challenges him, the more he hesitates. The more he protects her, the more dangerous their bond becomes. When hidden conspiracies threaten to tear apart the cycle of reincarnation, their marriage becomes the key to either saving both worlds—or destroying them. She was forced to marry Death. Now Death may be the one who cannot let her go. A dark, addictive romance where love defies fate—and even the end of life itself.