Aurora Gray was forced into an engagement with the second son of the Hayes family by her foster mother as part of a political marriage arrangement. On the night of the engagement party, she witnessed her fiancé's infidelity with her foster sister. Heartbroken and intoxicated, she accidentally started a fire. In the midst of the crisis, Noah Hayes, the eldest son of the Hayes family known as "Viper" and the heir to the family fortune, rushed into the flames to save her. Noah, who was actually hiding in Aurora's room to evade his own pursuers, found himself unexpectedly drawn to her vulnerability and resilience. But fate is never kind—Noah soon receives a lethal mission: to hunt down Amber Raven, the daughter of the man who murdered his employer. As the investigation progresses, a chilling truth comes to light: Amber is none other than Aurora, the woman who has quietly claimed his heart. Now Noah faces an impossible choice: to take Aurora's life as duty demands, or to betray the code of loyalty he's lived by and protect the woman who ignited a fire in his soul...