Her Counterattack Starts With His Kiss

The Zhou family is a few steps from finished, and the way out Zhou He has been arranging is a marriage into the Qin family, to Qin Heng. Qin Jin is the coldest of the city's top lawyers, the man the rich in Yunzhou hire when something has to be cleaned up quietly, and Qin Heng's uncle. There was a night of drinking that got away from both of them, and a brazier kicked over, and after that the two of them have terms with each other. She sets it up a move at a time and he keeps closing the gap she leaves. "Qin Heng isn't the only one in the Qin family you could marry into," he tells her. The city watches her attach herself to him and takes it for a woman climbing out of a ruined house. He knows what she is actually doing, which is holding a knife at his heart, and he has had his chest open to it from the beginning. The marriage is supposed to be a use each of them has for the other, and he has no intention of letting her out of it.