Lina Hart only wanted one thing in life—normalcy.No ancient family secrets.No dangerous gu arts.No cursed bloodline tied to obsession and desire.After losing her parents to the hidden world of gu practitioners, Lina buried everything connected to her past and disappeared into an ordinary life as a small intern at Morgan Corporation.Quiet. Invisible. Safe.Until one night ruined everything.After being sent to deliver documents to the company’s cold and untouchable CEO, Adrian Morgan, Lina accidentally walks into a trap meant to destroy him. Drugged and barely conscious, Adrian mistakes her for salvation in the middle of a fevered night he can barely remember.Lina leaves before dawn, believing she escaped unnoticed.She was wrong.Because Adrian can still remember her scent.Soft. Sweet. Addictive.And the Lotus Gu sleeping beneath Lina’s skin has already awakened.Now the powerful CEO who once belonged completely to his elegant childhood sweetheart, Elena Zhang, finds himself slowly losing control. The more Adrian tries to uncover the identity of the mysterious woman from that night, the more dangerously obsessed he becomes.But obsession has consequences.Especially when the hidden world Lina tried to escape begins watching her again.And somewhere beneath the growing attraction, terrifying secrets are waiting to bloom—secrets capable of destroying love, loyalty, and everyone caught between them.