Bloodred Thorns

#Older brother: A restrained, quiet, cool-headed elite criminal investigator on the surface, but a ruthless, unhinged brother-obsessive underneath VS younger brother: A bloodthirsty, merciless underworld boss on the surface, but a kind-hearted undercover agent carrying the weight of the world#

#The nemesis you imagine is the moonlight that lived in the abyss in your place#

#A secret kept unopened for twenty-eight years, hidden in criminal investigation files#

Jiang Yuanhao had two great regrets in his life:

At age eight, he failed to see the blood-soaked bandages beneath Lu Yihang's school uniform.

At eighteen, on a stormy night, he let his "younger brother" disappear through the back door of the morgue.

Ten years later, the most decisive criminal investigator in Tanzhou's police force pinned a small-time underworld boss against a wall, gripping him by the throat at a drug-busting operation.

The familiar face before him overlapped with the one in his memories. Beneath the man's clothes, his collarbone still bore the scar Jiang Yuanhao had left him as a child.

"So you're Mr. Xingye?" Jiang Yuanhao pressed his gun barrel to the scar, slowly tracing it down the man's chest before stopping at his upper abdomen and jabbing it hard. His voice was icy. "Did the Azure Dragon Gang ever teach you how many years you get for faking a death certificate?"

Amid the thunder and lightning, the man before him gave a wicked smile, licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, then suddenly seized Jiang Yuanhao and pinned him to the wall. In the same instant, he snapped a handcuff onto one of Jiang Yuanhao's wrists. "Officer Jiang, where do you think you are? Are all the undercover cops from the Tanzhou police force this amateur?"

"You always say that nothing beautiful can bloom in rotten, parched soil." At a battlefield engulfed in flames, Lu Yihang stood on the opposing side, staring across at Jiang Yuanhao. His gaze was sharp as he took a desperate gamble over the encrypted channel. "But I still want to try... What if I water it with every last drop of my blood?"

Jiang Yuanhao lost focus for a moment. When he understood the hidden meaning behind his younger brother's words, his eyes nearly split with rage

★ HIGH-RISK RELATIONSHIP WARNING ★

1. A criminal investigation captain keeps an underworld boss's urn on his bedside table VS an underworld boss keeps an unconditional-make-up coupon from a special police officer locked in his safe.

2. Brothers become enemies, then enemies become lovers.

3. A bloody redemption, both ways.

[Reading Guide]

1. A double dose of unhinged beauty. The younger brother is an immortal flower planted in the darkness by the Ministry of State Security, and his gravestone was carved before his commendation plaque.

2. Every heartbreaking moment turns into a face-slapping triumph. Diamonds are picked from a pile of broken glass.

3. What you think is betrayal is his way of trading his life for yours across a decade.

4. They're not biological brothers. The younger brother was adopted.

[Major Twists]

1. The younger brother returns from the dead and becomes the biggest boss of all.

2. A shocking secret about the younger brother's origins is hidden at the scene of their mother's death.

3. The layered schemes behind their mutual redemption lead to both of them working undercover.

Theme: The filthiest mud can still produce a flower of justice, tempered in blood.