Tales of Licheng: Irises Among the Ruins

[Urban workplace, talented men and beautiful women, traps of desire, redemption through forbidden love, flowers blooming toward the sun] ★ From the heights to the abyss: Ten years of rises and falls for the fallen young master Chu Fenglai The starlight in the Golden Hall had barely faded when sirens announcing his family’s collapse shattered the Moonlight Sonata. His father went to prison, his mother was critically ill, and the favored son of heaven became the laughingstock of Licheng. The aesthetic of ruins: Rusted piano keys, moonlight in the ICU, and irises growing wild through cracks in the concrete, all became totems of his rebirth. ★ A struggle for redemption in a city of desire The vortex of power and lust: From singing in bars to becoming a key employee, he navigates one trap of desire after another, walking on thin ice between morality and survival. Broken souls finding life together: The depressive, the biker, the uniformed, the healer... A group of wounded beasts trapped in the city weave a web of redemption from love and hate. An exquisite push and pull: Scales and chords, undercurrents at work, the suffocation of the abyss, composing a blood-red symphony of reality and ideals. ★ Beneath the ruins, a wild growth Rising from the ashes: Growing step by step, through pain and joy; cast adrift, then finding faith again. The fates of multiple heroines resonate: One betrays power for him, one faces death for him, and one journeys with him to the countryside, turning despair into the spark of rebirth. A portrait of Licheng: Champagne towers and cheap beer, piano music and roaring motorcycles, banquets for the powerful and the humble warmth of village life, capturing the era’s human comedy. Winter 2018. Chu Fenglai returns to Licheng. On a battered Steinway piano, a sea of blue flowers surges This time, he will compose a deafening finale of light for every soul beneath the ruins. “Listen. In the rotting piano case, iris roots are tearing the night apart.”