In a border town, the demon exterminator Liu Xuzhen spent half a month's salary on a cage of snake demons that were about to be roasted.
This is a world where the Semen Peace Agreement has been enacted for twenty-seven years but has never really been remembered. The treaty exists, but the implementation does not exist; the rules exist, but goodwill does not exist. Liu Xuzhen is a competent demon exterminator in this gap: not smart enough, not smooth enough, but stubbornly believes that the rules themselves have meaning.
Then he met Cen Lan, the young leader of the Tiger clan.
A young tiger clan leader led troops to surround the town, claimed to be his biological brother, and had a face that was more or less similar to his.
This book is about their stories, and about their process of repeatedly confirming their belonging between "here" and "other people's places". Write about how the structural prejudice between transsexuals is tougher than a knife, and how a person still knows who he is after all the identity labels have been torn off layer by layer - or, no longer knows.
This is not a story where everyone gets what they want. Where Ryu Seo-jin ends up going may not be where you expect him to arrive.
Intent: Identity and self-belonging - a person torn apart by multiple identities, looking for his true self in the narratives of others