I lived for over a hundred years, watching my country fall and my family perish, one by one in my arms.
The only person I ever wanted to hold on to was him.
But whenever he sees me, he looks as if he’s seen a ghost.
Yiergen Jueluo Yinzhen, the Qing Dynasty’s last prince, a double-degree graduate from Germany, and the loneliest immortal in the world.
He witnessed the Old Summer Palace go up in flames and heard the cannons of the First Sino-Japanese War. Amid a hail of bullets, he clutched the body of his little sister and lost his mind overnight.
The only reason he has to keep living is that man: Hei Xiazi, his classmate in Germany who once gave him a brief moment of warmth, the “sworn enemy” he used, betrayed, and hunted for a hundred years, yet who still lives more like a human being than he does.
So Yinzhen chases him, while Hei Xiazi runs. Yinzhen uses every means at his disposal to leave his mark on his life.
He secretly protects him on tomb-raiding missions and watches coldly when he’s hurt, whispering in his ear again and again:
“I’ve been claiming your life for over a hundred years. It’s time you paid me back.”
Hei Xiazi takes off his sunglasses and asks, “What do you want from me?”
Yinzhen smiles, his eyes alight with the madness forged by a century of loneliness.
“I want you to willingly let me pursue you for the rest of your life.”
But when the madman’s sincerity finally warms the heart of the man who has always been running, and he embraces Yinzhen for the first time, saying, “I’m not leaving,” Yinzhen discovers that the end of this pursuit is his own death.
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