Breath of the Blazing Isle

Ye Sha, a retired female soldier, returns to Phuket Island, ready to start a new life with her girlfriend, Sela.

The next morning, Sela is found dead at the private party of the tycoon Jiukou.

Police: Accidental overdose. No signs of homicide.

Jiukou Group: We're very sorry. Name your price.

Ye Sha refuses to accept it. She knew Sela too well. Sela didn't touch drugs. She took care of herself, and dreamed of retiring and running away with Ye Sha.

She joins the staff at the Jiukou villa complex as a bodyguard, hoping to get closer to the truth.

Instead, she's assigned to protect Jiukou's stepdaughter, a sixteen-year-old girl in a wheelchair with white hair who never leaves her room.

The girl doesn't look at her like she's a bodyguard.

As the investigation deepens, Ye Sha discovers that everyone who was there that night knows something, but every one of them tells her to stop digging.

The only person who might know the truth is sitting in a wheelchair, watching her with dark eyes.

"Are you sure you want to know the truth?"

"Are you sure you can bear it?"

One woman's death drags everyone's secrets into the open.

And when Ye Sha finally reaches the edge of the truth, she realizes that just when she thought she'd found it, she had already become part of the game.

Nothing can be held on to in the November wind.

On Phuket Island, it's summer all year round. Yet in each other's eyes, they see winter.

[Main Characters]

Ye Sha: A retired mercenary and bodyguard with battlefield PTSD. Cold on the outside, warm on the inside, she lives by the motto "survive." After Sela's death, she becomes Xiao Yi's "anchor."

Ju Heyi (Xiao Yi): Systematically conditioned by Jiukou from the age of ten, she fights back with self-destructive intelligence and develops an obsessive attachment to Ye Sha.

[Supporting Characters]

Sela: A stripper and Ye Sha's lover, a "ghost" in the narrative. After her death, she becomes the causal link connecting every character.

Lu Wujing: A demoted policewoman who uses excessive force, Ye Sha's "mirror" and adversary, and eventually her accomplice.

Mi Li: Assistant CEO of the Jiukou Group, both an ambitious woman and a victim. Her romance with Guixia becomes a crack in her humanity.

Jiang Mobei: Founder of Mobei Security, a rational and practical "parental" figure who provides logistical support and moral restraint.

[One-Line Synopsis]

The light of salvation is too blinding. It's not for me.

[Fragments]

"You saw only the dark side of the moon, so you chose to become a demon."

"Let those who chose to see the bright side go to heaven. We'll meet in hell."

"He looked so pitiful back then, too, but he schemed to condemn you to eternal damnation.

[Important Note]

This is only a novel. The methods of killing described in the story are completely unrealistic and would certainly arouse suspicion from doctors and police.

The killer would certainly be brought to justice.

So this is only a novel. Don't take it any other way!

Theme: A prey fights back.