They were rivals from the cradle—verbal warfare, bruised knuckles, and a competition so petty it might as well have been sacred. To Ning Xiao, Chi Weiran was the kind of guy she wanted to see tripping over life, just so she could lean in with a grin and say, "Oops."

The idea that he could ever like her? Her best friend called it a delusion. A fever dream. A diagnosis.

Until one day, bruised and breathless, he looked her dead in the eye and whispered, "Please... stop getting hurt."
Followed by, "Whatever you want, I'll do it."

Now the boy who once fought her for the last dumpling is asking her to marry him.

She's not sure if this is revenge, redemption, or a romantic glitch in the matrix. But she does know one thing—when the man who spent a decade trying to destroy you is suddenly trying to save you... it either ends in fireworks or fire.

Either way, she's not going down without her own brand of chaos.