Synopsis of "Burning Night"
On the edge of a forgotten city, a knife that has waited ten years, and a group of people unable to let go.
When Lu Chen crawls out of a back-alley brawl on a stormy night, he’s covered in blood, clutching a baseball bat embedded with scraps of flesh. He doesn’t know whose bones he smashed that night, or that he’s about to be dragged into a deadly trap spanning twenty-one years and entwining three generations.
Tiger wants him dead, not out of hatred, but because Lu Chen happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and stumbled upon a deadly drug deal codenamed “Night Orchid.”
The Hidden Guest saves his life, not out of compassion, but because Lu Chen happens to be a disposable pawn who can be sent into deep water.
And then there’s the woman he never met, Lin Feng. She died at twenty-nine, laid to rest on a reef in the mass graveyard offshore from the old harbor. Yet with a knife, a sentence, and fifteen years of waiting, she binds the limping Lao Shun, her cousin who has lain low for twenty-one years, and this lone wolf who crawled back from hell into the same web of fate.
This is a game of strategy from which no one can emerge unscathed.
Tiger built his throne on thirty years of habit and absolute control, yet every Wednesday he goes to Longquan Pond to wait for someone who will never wake again.
The Hidden Guest plans everything with clockwork precision, yet in the bargain of “a life for a life,” he tastes something beyond calculation for the first time.
Lao Shun guards that knife with three remaining fingers and fifteen years of his life. He guards a lamp and a promise: “The knife is still here, and the debt is still unpaid.”
And Lu Chen…
He just wants to live. He wants to do right by those who died, those who waited, those who can never leave
