The Syndicate's Secret Harvest

I kept my eyes on the floor when Velia tore my life apart at the Apex Gala. Screaming fake accusations, she claimed my promising tech-developer fiancé, Renzo, for herself, and condemned me to marry Jaro Kanto - a notorious slum enforcer with blood on his knuckles. Velia thought she had secured a billionaire's future while sentencing me to rot. She didn't know two things. First, Renzo’s upcoming breakthroughs were actually built on my quiet, late-night code revisions. Second, marrying a designated street thug automatically triggered the city's Purge Protocol: a 180-day countdown until we are both exiled to the fatal toxic wastelands. Terrified but refusing to die, I step into Jaro’s brutal world, only to discover my terrifying husband isn't just a thug. Hidden in his basement is an impossible, illegal Eden. Jaro is a bio-botanical prodigy. As Velia’s stolen marriage suffocates under her toxic demands and Renzo’s stagnation, I must push my dangerous husband to monopolize the city's most desperate resource. Can a shy outcast and a violent gangster build an empire before the clock runs out?