When Jin Hao accepts a royal contract worth millions, he is sent undercover to the elite Imperial Military Academy to protect Crown Prince Yu Chen from a deadly assassination threat. His mission is simple, blend in as a cadet, stay close to the prince, and never reveal his true identity. There is only one problem. He doesn't know that Crown Prince Yu Chen is the mysterious, masked client who bought his body just weeks ago in the empire’s most exclusive underground den. At the academy, Yu Chen acts like a cold stranger, yet he immediately uses his authority to make Jin Hao his personal close quarters guard. Jin Hao believes his disguise is working. He believes he is there to protect the prince. Instead, he has walked straight into a gilded cage. As a strange physical craving begins to consume him and darker secrets surface within the royal quarters, Jin Hao uncovers a horrifying truth. The imperial throne didn't just cage him. They slaughtered his real family. Now trapped between a deadly physical dependency and an obsessive prince who would burn the entire empire to keep him, Jin Hao must decide whether to pull the trigger on the royal tyrant holding his leash or surrender to the darkness in Yu Chen’s eyes.

Rule Number One: No falling in love. Alexander Laurent, London’s most ruthless CEO, needs a respectable wife to secure his empire against his own cutthroat family. Sienna Marlow needs a miracle to save her grandmother’s historic hotel from the wrecking ball. A one-year contract marriage seems like the perfect transaction. They share a penthouse, put on fake smiles for the cameras, and swear to keep their business entirely separate. But pretending to be Mrs. Laurent comes with dangerous strings attached. When unseen enemies suddenly target Sienna, the lines between their fake marriage and a very real, consuming passion begin to blur. Someone inside the Laurent dynasty is hiding a thirty-year-old secret, and they will destroy Sienna to keep it buried. Alexander swore he would never let a woman jeopardize his billion-dollar company. Now, he’s ready to tear his own family apart to keep her safe. It was supposed to be a simple business deal. They had no idea it was a trap.

For three painful years, Lumija “Lumia” Kaarlejärvi lived like a ghost in the Valonen household, trapped in a cold marriage to powerful businessman Tuure Valonen while watching him openly love his fragile childhood sweetheart. When Tuure demands a divorce and asks Lumia to give her bone marrow to save the woman who betrayed her, Lumia decides to destroy the life she once knew. She fakes her death in a fiery yacht explosion and disappears into the icy waters of the Baltic Sea. Two years later, Tuure is a broken man, dependent on alcohol and haunted by the truth. He finally learns that his beloved sweetheart was behind every scandal that destroyed his former wife. At a major financial summit in Helsinki, he comes face-to-face with the new CEO of Sterling Enterprises. It’s Lumia. She is alive, beautiful, powerful and engaged to his biggest business rival. Tuure falls to his knees in front of everyone, begging for her forgiveness and offering his entire empire in return, Lumia wants none of it. She has come back to destroy the Valonen dynasty, piece by piece. But then a dark secret comes to light. Someone else has been pulling the strings all along and the truth could destroy them both.