Soft Moments Amid the Horror
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“Even in ruin, something beautiful can grow.”
Wei Ying, orphaned and starving, begins life in the slums of Yunmeng as a feral, skittish child—alone, unseen, and constantly fighting to survive. He trusts no one, and every act of kindness feels like a trap. He’s clever, quick, and endlessly brave, but scarred deep by hunger, cruelty, and abandonment.
One winter, a stranger gives him a talisman bearing the symbol of a distant place called the Cloud Recesses. Wei Ying doesn’t believe in salvation—but hunger and loss eventually draw him to Caiyi Town, where fate intervenes.
There, he meets Lan Zhan—a cold-eyed, rule-bound child of privilege from the Gusu Lan Clan. Their first meeting is a disaster. Wei Ying, scrappy and mocking, crashes into Lan Zhan’s carefully ordered world like a thunderclap. But something in them recognizes each other—two boys burdened with silence, discipline, and grief too large for their bodies.
Over time—and through years of slow-burn trust—they become everything to each other.