"They wrote snakes into my genes, but they forgot to ask me if I wanted to be a monster."
Qu Qingfu is a "defective product" walking in the world. The snake pattern on the side of his neck was burning, and the golden light in his eyes was out of control - an unethical "snake man" genetic modification experiment forcibly imprinted the cold snake nature into his blood. He is a failed work who escaped from the laboratory and is looking for evidence that he is still "human" in the world.
Shen Xun is the perfect "imitation" of the floating world. In the hypocritical family rules, he used impeccable gentleness to freeze himself. He has insight into human nature, but cannot trust any temperature.
Their story begins with an unnecessary kindness.
At the foot of the stone steps of the ancient temple, Shen Xun looked at the black-haired young man covered in spikes and with blank eyes, and spoke out of nowhere:
"This temple is very spiritual."
As soon as the words came out, even he himself was slightly startled.
This unfounded affirmation was more lethal than any pity, like a thorn piercing Qu Qingfu's already numb nerves.
"Why would someone... Talk to me like that?"
Three days later, in the noisy crowd at the zoo, Qu Qingfu caught a glimpse of Shen Xun's sunny smile towards his friends across the sea of people.
At that moment, the thought of inquiry turned into burning delusion:
"If that smile belongs to me..."
So, the hunter stopped neighing and began planning a long "accidental encounter."
With his modified body, uncontrollable snake nature and love that burns everything, he approached deliberately.
He thought this was an inevitable hunt, an occupation of warmth.
But he soon discovered that he was terribly wrong.
When he offered all his truth and madness, what he got in exchange was Shen Xun's gentle but firm retreat. Locked inside that perfect body that he tried his best to hit was a loneliness that was deeper than him and an inviolable self-boundary.
This is a soul war that begins with a kind word and ends with life and death.
In a transformed body, one is tortured about what it means to be a human being.
A person who protects the crumbling reality under a perfect disguise.
When genetically modified "defective products" meet "imitations" polished by human nature,
Is it swallowing or reflecting?
Destruction or redemption?
"If the Buddha doesn't save you, I will save you."
"But what do you want, is my salvation—or my entire soul?"
[Scheming Snake Experimental Subject × Gentle and Frozen Noble Prince]
A fatal attraction about loneliness, existence and ultimate understanding.
Intention: Two "non-humans" who have been alienated by their respective systems not only see themselves in each other, but also find the only "coordinate of life". They used a dangerous conspiracy to test the boundaries of freedom, but discovered in the process that the deepest freedom is that in the eyes of the other party, they are finally allowed to "lose control" once.