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    “Your belongings will be planted in the rubble,” he said quietly, “your death will be registered with the others.”

    Just like the assassins had wanted- Wei Wuxian died in the destruction of the Burial Mounds. Dead. Dead men weren’t hunted. Dead men couldn’t lose more people. Dead men couldn’t fail children.

    After a coordinated attack destroys Wei Wuxian’s laboratory and forces him to fake his death to protect a child and the remnants of his research, the world believes him gone. Thirteen years later, he resurfaces under guarded protection at Gusu Academy, where Lan Wangji—who never truly believed he died—offers him refuge. As buried projects resurface and a shadow network manipulates Wei Wuxian’s groundbreaking work for darker purposes, the two men are forced to confront not only the conspiracy that tore their lives apart, but the quiet, unbroken thread between them. In the ashes of betrayal, exile, and unfinished devotion, love must decide whether it can survive truth.

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