The Out-of-Control Guardian

Marcus Holloway was the undisputed ruler of Beicheng's underworld—ruthless in his methods, deep in his scheming, never one to care whether others lived or died. Seven years ago, during a bloody clash with a rival gang, he picked up a boy of unknown origin from a pool of blood, initially intending to casually dump the child on one of his men to raise, but some inexplicable whim compelled him to keep the boy instead. That child, Shen Xingchu, grew more dazzling by the day, like a white lotus blooming out of nowhere in the mud, so pure it was blinding. Marcus Holloway thought he was raising an obedient cat, never realizing that beneath Shen Xingchu's docility lay a nature even more profound and formidable than his own. Two children guarding the same person like this, never leaving for ten years, until that very night of Shen Xingchu's eighteenth birthday, when Lu Han...