Synopsis
Zhao Guan was raised in a brothel. Sharp-tongued and quick-minded, he learned early that wits kept you alive when nothing else would. His father was a mystery, his mother killed by enemies — and after the rest of his family followed, he took her poison techniques and disappeared into the Jianghu, surviving by instinct in a world that had no use for sentiment. Ling Haotian had the opposite problem. Born into a respected wulin medical family, gifted and well-regarded — and completely suffocated by it. He spent most of his energy looking for ways to slip free of expectations, which…
