[Two Male Leads + Equally Matched + Historical Danmei + Fast-Paced Plot + Smart Characters]
[Blurb]
The one knocking at the door on a rainy night is both a reaper of souls and a lifesaver.
Ten years ago, the cold-blooded assassin Wei Ziyou drenched his blade in the blood of the Chu family. He alone spared the trembling child behind the door, Chu Xiang, and slipped him a bloodstained medicine bottle.
Ten years later, the miracle-working doctor Chu Xiang practices medicine to save lives. But on a night of torrential rain, he rescues a dying man whose body is covered in festering sores and exudes an ominous, poisonous aura. When he lifts the bloodstained cloak, the face on the wanted poster is unmistakable: the very assassin who slaughtered his family, Wei Ziyou!
Before Chu Xiang can strike with his revenge-laced poison needle, pursuers come crashing into the clinic. To uncover the truth behind the massacre, Chu Xiang is forced to flee with his dying enemy.
A shadow looms behind it all. The epidemic poison known as “Cold Smoke Plague” descends like a god of pestilence, leaving the lives of the entire city hanging by a thread. The mastermind sneers, “Hand over Chu Xiang, and you’ll get the antidote!”
Wei Ziyou tears up the antidote prescription, madness churning in his eyes as Chu Xiang watches in confusion. “You’d trade your life for all these people?”
Chu Xiang answers with a resolute smile, using a fire starter to set the plague’s lair alight. “No, Wei Ziyou.” The flames illuminate the icy abyss in his eyes. “It’s your ten-years-too-late remorse that will burn this rotten world to the ground!”
The top assassin of the martial world’s leading killer organization × the renowned Jiangnan doctor “Bodhisattva of Gentle Hands”
Brooding and cold-blooded, a mass murderer × gentle and refined, compassionate toward all living beings
[Content Warnings]
1. Character deaths
2. No one is entirely good
3. Includes revenge and other such themes
Warning!!! If you feel uncomfortable while reading, please stop immediately.
