ONE TOUCH RENDERS US TO ASH
Prince Duan Xieren’s touch is a death sentence.
Exiled to the demonic, labyrinthine forest of Nanshan for a mysterious affliction that rots whatever he touches, the once-perfect heir has resigned himself to a lonely, isolated fate. He expects to die in the dark.
Then enters Liang He: a notorious, silver-tongued thief with a sordid past and an alarmingly sly smirk. Liang He doesn’t care about the prince’s royal blood, nor does he care about his curse. He only cares that Xieren is the key to unlocking the Tear of Moonlight, a mythical, wish-granting relic hidden deep within the cursed woods.
Bound together by a fragile, transactional alliance, the exiled royal and the ruthless thief must navigate a forest teeming with illusions, flesh-eating demons, and their own mired traumas. But as they journey deeper into the dark, Xieren begins to realize that the deadliest thing in Nanshan isn’t the curse within his flesh, nor is it even the monsters in the trees; it’s the dangerous, magnetic pull of the thief who holds his salvation—and his secrets—in the palm of his hand.
