When the Infinite Game launched, Xie Ci was the first to enter. With overwhelming strength, he claimed the top spot on the overall leaderboard and cleared a Chinese-style horror hell dungeon with a completion rate of just 0.001% without taking a scratch. He founded [Blood Rose], and desperate players raised him to the altar.
With long white hair, violet eyes, and a collar always buttoned to the very top, he was once a professor of criminal psychology. His powers of observation and persuasion were second to none. He flirted and teased with effortless charm, but never fell for anyone and never took responsibility. He delighted in playing with people’s hearts and watching them sink into ruin. With little sense of morality and a ruthless way of doing things, he was the most dangerous beast in the dark forest.
Until the System forced him to team up with Lu Yan, second on the overall leaderboard, who barged into his world.
Cold and hard as a blade, taciturn and silent, Lu Yan neither knelt at the altar nor bowed to any faith. In the entire world of the Infinite Game, he was the only one who could match Xie Ci.
One was the Blood Rose, enthroned above the masses and beguiling all who gazed upon him.
The other was a silent blade, hidden in the shadows, its edge bared.
Forced together, they ventured through Chinese-style horror dungeons.
They played by the rules, tested each other’s hearts, and fought to survive.
For the first time, Xie Ci encountered prey he couldn’t control. For the first time, Lu Yan met an opponent who could stand beside him.
“In this dark forest, there are only beasts and bloodshed.”
“Keeping to your place doesn’t mean you’re soft and easy to bully.”
“Only those on equal footing deserve to live in peace.”
When the altar crumbles and the masks come off,
they are no worshipper and god,
but the only two beasts in the darkness whose jaws can lock together.
When the rose meets the blade, no one will ever be bullied again.
