Wu Lian is a partner at a top law firm. Three-piece suits, silver-rimmed glasses, and a gentle smile.
No one knows that inside him lives a beast on the verge of breaking free from its cage.
Yin Si is a madman in the underground fight scene. Scattered tattoos cover his body, a scar marks the end of his eyebrow, and he fights as if he doesn't care whether he lives or dies.
No one knows that he has rules when it comes to fighting, that he's a skilled tattoo artist, or that he reserves his only tenderness for a one-legged orange cat.
The first time they meet, Yin Si takes Wu Lian's glass.
"You don't drink, so why are you holding it? Just for show?"
Wu Lian looks at the lipstick mark and smear of blood on the rim, then takes a sip.
He never drinks.
That man saw through him. Not through his facade, but through to the self he kept buried deepest, the one he didn't even dare face himself.
That man saw his beast, then smiled.
Not with fear. Not with disgust.
But with a look that said, "Me too."
Theme: Face your true self and accept the beast within. Find redemption in each other amid the broken pieces.
