In the neon-drenched heart of Shanghai, a forgotten guardian walks a razor’s edge between silk and blood.
Qí Hǔ lives in the shadows of his past. Abandoned as a child, he buried his brilliance and lethal skills beneath the quiet routine of "Qi’s Silken Threads," a struggling textile shop in the city’s oldest alleyways. His only companions are bolts of rare fabric and the ghosts of four childhood friends he hasn’t seen in fifteen years—friends who soared to glittering success while he faded into obscurity.
Everything shatters when Detective Chén Léi, his once-brother from the orphanage, kicks down his door. A high-profile killer is terrorizing Shanghai, leaving a trail of bodies and a single, damning clue: a cobalt silk thread traceable to Qí Hǔ’s shop.
Dragged into a world of police investigations and underworld violence, Qí Hǔ must unleash the deadly fighter he locked away to clear his name. But the deeper he digs, the more his isolation crumbles—reuniting him with his estranged "family": a tech genius, a fashion empress, and Lán Yīng, the pianist whose heart he broke when he vanished… and whose touch still ignites a storm within him.
Now, Qí Hǔ must juggle:
Solving crimes with fists sharper than any detective’s badge,
Saving his shop from ruin and Syndicate threats,
Mending shattered bonds with the friends he left behind,
And facing the searing truth of the love he never stopped craving.