Tomb Raiding: From the Start, I Picked Up a Mad Queen

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She is a being who emerged from behind the Bronze Gate, searching for him for a thousand years and crossing through the ages. She knows the Ninth Gate's schemes inside and out, yet watches coldly from the sidelines, because the only person she has ever waited for is Zhang Qiling.

What Wu Xie thinks is a chance encounter is a trap she carefully laid. The videotapes from the Golmud sanatorium mark the prelude to her return.

From then on, the Tomb-Raiding Iron Triangle has a stunning new “temporary teammate.”

She calls him “Brother Xiaoguan.” When his memories are shattered, she becomes his sharpest blade and his strongest shield.

She smiles like a flower, sharing drinks and laughter with Wu Xie and Pangzi and treating Xie Yuchen and Hei Xiazi with warmth. But when someone hurts him, bullies him, or tries to push him back into the abyss of fate, she slowly wipes the blood from the corner of her mouth. Madness held back for a thousand years burns in her eyes. “No one touches my Xiaoguan. No one.”

Zhang Qiling: “Don't be afraid. I'm here.” When she teeters on the edge of losing control, he pulls her back. Only his presence can calm her.