Vivian Hale and Silas Payne were once the most eye-catching couple on campus. She was the bold and dazzling campus beauty—the red rose carefully cherished and doted on by the young heir to the underworld. For her sake, Silas resolved to wash his hands clean of all shady dealings, vowing to let his rose bloom on clean soil. Yet right when he was on the verge of making it happen, all he got was a breakup notice. He knelt and begged her for three days and three nights straight, even collapsing unconscious in the pouring rain, but Vivian never so much as glanced his way. Three years later, Vivian reappeared out of the blue. She picked up the love she had once thrown away and willingly became his secret lover, hidden from the public eye.