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    After the siege on the Burial Mountains and the wedding that marks Wei Wuxian's salvation, Lan Wangji distances himself completely from him. Two years of silence weigh like a sentence, until a darker shadow insinuates itself into the life of the Second Gusu Lan: disturbing behavior, nocturnal escapes, brothels. A mystery that deepens, a silence that breaks with unanswered questions.

    Lan Qiren watches his nephew escape from his hands, and for the first time feels the weight of those thirty-three lashes not only on Lan Wangji's skin, but also on his own conscience. Honor, discipline, rules: what's left when order crumbles?

    To understand what is happening, Wei Wuxian and Lan Qiren find themselves bound by a fragile alliance, forged by necessity rather than will. Two opposite men, but equally linked to the one who received thirty-three blows for choosing love.

    Thirty-three, like the scars that no one wants to count anymore, like the red petals that fall on the snow, tracing a path that no one has the courage to follow. Perhaps, in the snow, it is still possible to distinguish the red of the fallen petals.

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