When a young man's blood and bones collide with the underworld's dark currents, fate has already written a desolate opening chapter.
Once a lone, fearless soul roaming the streets, he leapt into a world of blades and bullets for the late-autumn moonlight hidden in his heart. She was the only warmth in the cold night. With tenderness as her blade, she became the longing he held onto when he laid down his weapons, and the weakness exposed by every careful step he took.
Ten years of rising and falling in the underworld: from the bloody first steps at the docks of Yucheng to holding power across Jiang Province. He climbed to the top over a bed of thorns, yet could never escape fate's backlash. The recklessness of youth amid flashing blades and gunfire could never withstand the cruelty of deep love and ill-starred fate. The tenderness hidden beneath tattoos and gun barrels, the obsessions steeped in blood and sin, all became a past from which there was no turning back.
This is a battle between redemption and ruin, and a fateful entanglement of love and sin. When the boy is no longer young and his recklessness becomes a thing of the past, only the lingering warmth of late autumn remains, reflected in the wreckage of the underworld and in a heart that can never return to its original innocence.
