The June river breeze was sticky and stifling, neon lights shattering across the water.
At a bar in M City, she smashed his phone, leaving a lipstick mark: now they were even.
Two months later, in a small town in Xixian County.
A cool, beautiful transfer student repeating her final year meets a second-year high school boy with a feral streak sharp enough to cut.
She carries a body scarred by oceans of blood, keeping strangers at a distance.
He bears half a lifetime of desolation and obsession, haunting her without end.
They clash head-on, wounding each other in turn.
Their kisses are thorns, their love a calamity.
Two trapped beasts, locked in a struggle to the death.
Theme: They kiss with thorns, save each other, and finally find new life.
