The Hunting Game

At nineteen, Ye Qing fell for the one person he could never allow himself to want—his private tutor. He guarded that forbidden longing in silence, burying it deep and carrying it quietly through the years that followed, certain the feeling would remain locked away forever. Eighteen years later, the secret he believed was safely entombed finally comes to light. The tutor's son uncovers the truth of his father's former student's hidden crush, and rather than let the revelation rest, he turns it into a weapon: if Ye Qing wants his silence, he must become the young man's lover. With a single careless threat, the settled order of Ye Qing's life collapses overnight, thrown into disarray by a demand he never saw coming. What follows is a relentless game of pursuit. Despite the eighteen-year gap between them, Ye Qing finds himself utterly defenseless against the younger man's bold, aggressive advances, cornered at every turn and stripped of any real power to refuse. In this hunt, the line between hunter and prey grows increasingly blurred, and every move pulls Ye Qing deeper into a romance he never chose to play.