The hit danmei (Boys’ Love) thriller from the author behind Guardian: Zhen Hun and Stars of
Chaos: Sha Po Lang –both available from Seven Seas! A young man’s body is found outside a
glitzy high-rise on the West Side of Yancheng—dressed for celebration strangled and left with
a sheet of paper covering his face. One word is scrawled across it: money . To Sergeant Luo
Wenzhou head of the Criminal Investigation Team at the Yancheng Municipal Public Safety Bureau
it’s just another case in a city rife with power plays and buried secrets. But as he digs
deeper with his team what begins as a straightforward homicide unravels into something far
murkier—reaching into the city’s darkest corners of wealth privilege and police corruption.
And then there’s Fei Du: the aloof razor-sharp CEO of the Fei Corporation who seems to know
far too much about the murder—and about Luo Wenzhou himself. Once a troubled youth with ties to
Luo Wenzhou’s past Fei Du now walks a fine line between brilliant ally and inscrutable
suspect. His insights are disturbingly precise. His motives? Frustratingly opaque. As the
investigation twists through layers of trauma and moral ambiguity Luo Wenzhou finds himself
reluctantly drawn toward the very man who unsettles him most. But in a city where justice is
easily bought and truth wears many masks can either man afford to trust the other?
