From Primordial Chaos Came Yin and Yang; Hate Is Love Taken to the Extreme

[Anthology, each story stands alone] Shen Yan and Shen Ci are brothers whose closeness seems excessive to everyone around them.

They travel together and spend every day side by side, hiding all their dependence and affection in the little things they’re too afraid to take further.

Though they love each other deeply, their identities tie their hands. Rumors drive them apart, and their families tear them to pieces.

Strangers in public, they secretly trade nights of longing from behind a wall, through a crack in the door.

“I’ve never seen you as just a brother.”

But “brother” is a mountain they can never cross in their lifetimes.

The young emperor personally led his troops into battle, placing his trust in his sworn brother and pledging to secure the capital.

But after losing the battle and being captured, he returned to find his kingdom taken and himself confined behind towering walls.

After seven years of restraint, a palace coup in the dead of night put him back on the throne, where he kept the other man chained at his side.

They are ruler and subject, enemies, and an obsession carved into their very bones.

Beneath the towering imperial palace, both are trapped by love, hatred, power, and desire, locked in a lifetime of fighting and imprisonment.