Crimson Plumes, Dark Scales

Su Qingyuan, a modern paleontologist, is caught in a temporal vortex while studying a fossil that may be a phoenix egg. When she opens her eyes, she has become a newly hatched phoenix chick in the Ninth Heaven. She bears the “Flame of Rebirth,” but her mind has yet to awaken. Cangyuan happens upon her and takes her back to his lair in the abyss.

Cangyuan is the oldest living being on the Xuanhuang Continent, the supreme ruler of the dragon clan. For ten thousand years, he has guarded the Nether Abyss alone, keeping the ancient beasts sealed away. Cold, aloof, and proud, he regards all things as dust. He takes in the phoenix chick intending to turn the only true phoenix fire in existence into a “vessel” to suppress the beasts. He never expects that this fluffy little ball of fire will stir up a tempest in his frozen heart.

From their early days as a phoenix chick and a dragon, when they are “like fire and water”, she pecks at his vulnerable scales, and he freezes her tail feathers, to their fierce clashes as adults, when she draws her sword against him to protect the ancestral lands of the phoenix clan and he defies the laws of heaven to protect her, their relationship changes again as they uncover the blood feud between their clans in the ancient war. They are pulled back and forth between love and hatred. When the seal on the Nether Abyss weakens and the beasts break free, threatening to destroy the Xuanhuang Continent, these fated enemies and lovers finally understand: what they call love and rivalry is simply a bond written by fate long ago. Her scarlet feathers can ignite his dark scales, and his abyssal power can extinguish her blazing fire, yet neither can burn away or freeze the connection between their souls.