In the gray zone between gunfire and profit, she is the dreaded Queen of Arms, Song Qingyu, code-named Green Snake. With violet hair like an enchantress and eyes sharp as blades, she turns war into a chessboard and firearms into game pieces, treading the dangerous edges of the world in pursuit of the ultimate thrill and absolute freedom.
During a deadly deal in the North Sea, she finds a boy amid a mountain of corpses: Jonah, code-named World Serpent. He is a killing machine with no past, his gaze empty but his movements lethal, a top assassin forgotten by the world. “Come with me,” she says, reaching out to him with a bewitching smile. “I'll show you just how crazy this world can be.”
From then on, he becomes her sharpest blade and strongest shield. She teaches him every kind of weapon and takes him through urban gunfights, jungle warfare, desert battlefields... From Eastern European black markets to the ports of Wu, from golden boomtowns to global crises, together they reshape the balance of power in the world's underbelly.
She is a dealer in death, yet she lives by one rule: no selling children. He is a weapon devoted to protecting her, yet she is the only person for whom he would let down his guard.
When old conspiracies close in once more and the world's hostility surges toward them, he stands with his blade raised. “Anyone who wants to hurt her will have to get past my dead body.” She smiles enigmatically. “Don't be afraid, darling... This is what life is all about.”
This is a dark adventure spanning the globe, and a story of two lives bound together in a deadly journey toward redemption. See how the Queen of Arms and the Serpent of the World stir up storms and turn the world upside down!
