Shen Ji is the young, unquestioned head of the Shen empire, moving between the worlds of light and darkness, with an icy slaughterhouse for a heart.
Tang Shi is an ordinary girl forced into his world for her family’s sake, as innocent as a lamb that has wandered into a wolf’s den.
He bought her at first only for the rare sense of peace her presence brought him.
She feared him, seeing him as a monster who held life and death in his hands.
An “accident” born of a conspiracy shattered the bloody divide between their two worlds. In the grip of overwhelming fear, she found the courage to want to comfort him.
In her tears and embraces, he tasted what it was like to be cared for for the first time.
He showed her the darkest rules,
while she offered him the purest understanding.
He taught her how to walk along the edge of the abyss without falling,
while she taught him how to be a “person” with warmth.
From a cold cage to a warm refuge, they learned to recognize one another by their scars and forged an alliance through pain. Two broken souls found each other’s hands in the boundless darkness, then stumbled forward together, learning how to make flowers bloom from their wounds and build a nest in this world called “home.”
When the dark emperor who controls everything meets the one pure glimmer capable of touching his scars, a mutual salvation that began with a transaction, was forged through pain, and ended in belonging quietly unfolds between the clouds and the abyss…
