The Detailed Plot
Bianca Vance earned the nickname "Birdie" because she can slip into any high-security building, steal what she wants, and fly away without a trace. But she's not doing it for fun; she's hunting down the syndicate that murdered her father. Her final target is Dante Alighieri, the cold, calculative, and utterly merciless Don of the city's most powerful crime family.
Bianca successfully sneaks into Dante's private estate to steal an encrypted ledger that holds the names of her father's killers. She gets the ledger, but just as she's about to escape, the alarms blare. She is surrounded by armed men, with Dante himself holding a gun to her forehead. Instead of begging for her life, Bianca smiles, spits blood at his shoes, and threatens to blow up the building with a hidden detonator.
Dante is fascinated. He's surrounded by yes-men, but this fierce, beautiful woman looks at him with pure hatred and zero fear. Instead of killing her, Dante realizes she is the perfect weapon. Dante is currently facing immense pressure from the Mafia Council to marry and secure his lineage, and he also knows someone in his inner circle is trying to assassinate him.
He offers Bianca a lethal deal: Become his fake wife, act as his bodyguard/spy in plain sight to help him eliminate his enemies, and in exchange, he will give her the names of the people who killed her father. If she refuses, he kills her younger brother (the only family she has left). Bianca accepts, but secretly vows to find a way to kill Dante the moment she gets what she wants.
The wedding is a massive, public affair designed to provoke Dante's enemies. Bianca looks like a stunning, fragile doll in her white dress, but underneath the silk, she has a dagger strapped to her thigh. From the very first night, their chemistry is a dangerous battlefield. They don't trust each other for a second. Every conversation is a game of psychological chess, and every touch is filled with burning tension.
As they attend high-society gala events and dark underworld meetings, Bianca acts the part of the obedient "Little Birdie," but behind the scenes, she is breaking heads and gathering intel. Together, they are unstoppable. Dante finds himself genuinely falling for her wild, defiant nature, and Bianca hates that she is starting to crave his dark, protective possessiveness.
However, the Webnovel drama hits the fan when Bianca discovers a horrifying truth: the ledger she stole reveals that Dante's own father ordered the hit on her dad—and Dante might have known about it all along. Feeling deeply betrayed, Bianca decides to execute her ultimate escape plan during a major Mafia Council summit.
But just as she sets off an explosion to escape, she is ambushed not by Dante, but by his rival syndicate, who reveals that Dante didn't betray her—he's been burning down his own family legacy just to keep her safe. Bianca is captured, and Dante is left staring at the ashes of his empire, ready to kill the entire world to get his Birdie back.