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The Don's Heir: A Campus Underworld

Seeking a fresh start, Avery Chen, the abandoned daughter of a well-known mafia lord, enrolls in a top university. Rather, she discovers she is in the middle of a dangerous network of academics and criminal activities. Avery draws the attention of campus golden boy Lucas Sterling as she is bullied for her family ties but she politely denies his interest. Expert assassin Avery pays for her schooling by means of high-stakes operations. Her world meets Lucas's when she finds out he is in charge of a competitor criminal group. As Lucas and his estranged brother Damien come to see Avery could be the key to bringing their disparate groups together, Avery must negotiate her feelings, her mission, and the dangerous underground of college organized crime. Avery battles to find the truth about her father's desertion and create her own path, therefore her particular abilities both help and hinder her. Will Avery be swallowed by the criminal underworld in a society where loyalties shift like sand?

Aaron_Joshua_6501 · 现代言情
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139 Chs

Echoes of Destiny

As they fled the deteriorating yard, Lucas's mind argued. The world he knew was disintegrating before his eyes, both metaphorically and practically. Cracks in reality spread like spiderwebs across the walls of Blackthorn University, and he swears he saw casts from other planets in the cracks. 

 

"This way!" Marcus wept as he led them down a passageway that Lucas had not seen before. The walls glowed with an otherworldly blue light, reminiscent of the energy he'd seen Avery and Zara transmit. 

 

Damien grabbed Lucas' arm, dragging him along."Keep moving, brother. We can stress out later. 

 

They smashed through a hefty rustic door and took up residence in a retiring chamber beneath the library. Rows of antique textbooks lined the walls, their backbones shimmering quietly in the dim lighting.