The Ascent Prey and Predator

Chloe, once a wealthy heiress, long ago kept Liam as her lover before leaving him behind three years later. When her family's conglomerate collapsed into bankruptcy and her father fell gravely ill, she fell from luxury to hardship almost overnight. Needing money for his medical bills, she takes a job under a false name at Shengshi Group, only to find its CEO is Liam, the man she abandoned. The gentle man she remembers has become cold and unforgiving, and he makes her sign a harsh contract as his personal secretary. Yet he quietly defends her whenever others turn on her, and the two are pulled into a tangled, intense romance where each keeps trading the role of hunter and hunted.