She ruined his suit. He ruined her life.One night, one fallen cake, and the coldest man Lily Hayes had ever met made her feel like nothing in front of two hundred people. She told herself she would forget him.She was wrong.When her father's gambling debt lands on the wrong table — Ryan Xu's table — Lily finds herself signing an employment contract for a household she never wanted to enter. Six months. One debt. One impossible man.Ethan Xu doesn't do warm. He doesn't do kind. He built his empire on control and silence, and he has no interest in the girl his brother brought into his house.Except he can't stop watching her.She hates him. He refuses to admit he notices her. And somewhere between cold mornings and midnight kitchens, between cruelty and almost-kindness, something is shifting that neither of them is ready to name.This isn't a love story.Not yet.