The Lights Are On, but No One Has Returned

Setup: two scheming, powerful leads

Also known as Revenge and Romance: The Chenglan Saga and Mu Qingmei's Guide to Winning Men

Only those who live in darkness yearn for the light.

Only those adrift with nowhere to go long for a place to dock.

To Chenglan, Mu Qingmei is warmth and light, a riverbank to rest upon.

The past that lies between them is like towering mountains, like a curtain of water: they long to draw close, but don't know how. What exactly happened between them?

A mysterious assassins' organization, a shocking case involving floating corpses, a messenger who never returns: how many hidden currents run beneath the capital's surface?

And how many crimes have these tangled aristocratic clans committed, how many people have they raised who love with all their hearts?