Beneath the seemingly ordinary modern city runs an ancient bloodline known as the Twin Bloom. Legend says that two flowers grow from the same stem: one governs life, the other death. Those bound by fate must choose between coexistence and mutual destruction, caught between the most intimate closeness and the deepest opposition.
Botanist Jiang Lan is warm and bright, able to hear the pulse of life in all things. Archaeologist Shen Ji is cold and enigmatic; everything touched by her fingertips bears the mark of extinction.
