Zhan Yao is enjoying his peaceful life as an university professor. That changes when his co-worker Jiang Lin finds out about the anonymous letters, threatening him, and signs him up to a self defense class. Reluctantly he agrees, certain it would only be a one-off kind of deal. That is until he meets the self defense teacher - Bai Yutong.
Bai Yutong is the owner and head-teacher of his own gym. Things start getting interesting when one of his students, Jiang Lin, brings in a newbie. Bai Yutong immediately feels drawn to the man, who looks like he’d rather be anywhere else. He’s always liked a challenge.
What neither of them know: Some dangerous people are after Zhan Yao. Soon the two find themselves in the firing line of some powerful masterminds. Can Bai Yutong protect Zhan Yao and help him reveal whatever is behind this? Will they be able to come out of it alive?
In his long life Bai Yutong has seen many things. He has met common or strange supernatural creatures from all over the world, passing through his hometown Hong Kong. Has fought some, helped even more. He has seen the rises and fall of regimes, the development of world and people alike. He has seen the quick rises of power-hungry high born creatures to the top of their society. And their even quicker downfalls.
Being one of these high borns himself, it would be easy – and expected – to follow those power drunk ones on their way to success, in the twilight of codex and doctrines. But Bai Yutong? He prefers to follow his own accords, instead of being a slave to some shady codex. His life starts to get a lot more interesting, when he meets Zhan Yao, a mere human, so we believe, who just came back from a long journey. Back home. Back to Hong Kong. To the city, Bai Yutong calls his home, too.
Wihtout intention, Bai Yutong and Zhan Yao’s path keep crossing. There’s something special about this young man, Bai Yutong notices soon enough. Something strange. He can’t shake this odd feeling of remembrance, like both of them have once known each other. But that can’t be. Through the course of the last centuries, Bai Yutong has met thousands of faces. But never Zhan Yao’s. He would remember this face! He’s sure about it.Then why can’t he get rid of this feeling of connection?
He lacks an answer and decides to keep his distance. But this decision is not his to make. Life finds a way and keeps on throwing them into each other’s pathway’s. Like gravity does to comets and stars and planets. Something begins.
It’s when an overly motivated hunter mistakes Zhan Yao for one of Bai Yutong’s and attacks, that is the moment Bai Yutong has to make a decision.
But what if, saving his new found friend Zhan Yao doesn’t only mean, bringing himself into great danger, but also threatens the existence of the whole underworld? Is he willling to risk it all? And does he really know this man, enough to make such a call? Does this man even know himself?! What powers and mysteries may slumber within his alleged human form? Does he know about the dark, pumping through his veins and the ancient stories embedded in his blood and flesh? And how will it endanger Bai Yutong?
If you would have asked Zhan Yao a few weeks ago, who and what he is, his answer would be irritated but quick. What else than human and scholar should he tell you? Are you asking for his family’s history? For his status? For his studies, which have brought him to New York, London, Jena and now back to Hong Kong?
But things have changed. Back in his hometown, he’s met numerous people, but none had left such an impact as Bai Yutong. Never has he felt such a kind of remembrance for a person, who he surely hasn’t met before?
He has yet to discover the true world his new friend calls his own - and has so for centuries. A world, carefully hidden from Zhan Yao’s eyes. Up until now. Everything changes and his well put together world gets ripped apart, as he is sucked into this new world, after someone attacks him, trying to kidnap him or worse. Why, he is not sure, but he knows it’s connected to his friend, Bai Yutong.
Yet, unknown to both of them is Zhan Yao’s ancient past. He’s of supernatural blood, once prince of fae’s, but now stripped of his memories. His powers sealed within; powers so great, his enemies couldn’t strip them from him, but had to bind and put them to slumber, deep within the darkest parts of his soul. For they would never come to the surface again and he to never return. But some part of magic has gone astray, and once slumbering powers start to awake once more.
