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Blade Against the Current (BA)

By: Xiang Xiaomo

Native Title: 逆水横刀 by 香小陌

Genre: Action, Adult, Drama, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Yaoi

Tags: Beautiful Male Lead, Clever Protagonist, Crime, Criminals, Enemies Become Lovers, Family Secrets, Gangs, Hidden Identity, Loyal Subordinates, Modern Day, Organized Crime, Past Trauma, Revenge, Schemes and Conspiracies, Strong Couple, Strong Love Interests, Strong Protagonist, Underworld, Violence

Content: 132 Chapters including Extras

Status: Original Complete | Translation Ongoing | Proofreading Ongoing

Synopsis:

Yan Xiaodao has survived poverty, violence, and more than one brush with death by following a simple rule: when fate knocks him down, he gets back up.

Preferably with a blade in hand.

Years ago, Qi Baoshan pulled him out of desperation and gave him something he had never truly possessed before: a home, a future, and a man he could call family. Yan Xiaodao never forgets a debt. Now grown into a formidable figure in the underworld, his loyalty to his godfather is absolute.

Until Ling He enters his life.

Beautiful, brilliant, sharp-tongued, and impossible to read, Ling He first appears aboard a luxury ship at the center of a dangerous game involving powerful men with too much money and too many secrets. Yan Xiaodao is supposed to protect him.

Instead, he becomes fascinated by him.

Ling He is nothing like the vulnerable man he initially seems to be. Beneath the elegance and carefully concealed wounds is someone every bit as dangerous as Yan Xiaodao himself, a man who has spent years following the trail of a blood debt that began fifteen years ago.

And that trail leads straight toward Yan Xiaodao’s own family.

One man owes his life to the person Ling He cannot forgive.

The other has survived for years because he refuses to abandon his revenge.

Neither is willing to surrender.

Unfortunately, neither is willing to surrender the other, either.

What begins with suspicion and attraction soon becomes something far more destructive. Yan Xiaodao and Ling He protect each other, deceive each other, fight for each other, and sometimes simply fight each other. Love does not erase their loyalties. It only makes every choice more painful.

Meanwhile, an old murder begins clawing its way back into the light.

Buried bones, vanished fortunes, powerful families, hidden identities, corrupt alliances, revenge schemes, and a relentless police investigation gradually expose a past in which guilt is not nearly as simple as it first appears. The deeper Yan Xiaodao and Ling He dig, the harder it becomes to tell where one generation’s crimes end and the next generation’s vengeance begins.

To reach the truth, they may have to stand on opposite sides.

To survive it, they may finally have to stand together.

Blade Against the Current is a modern underworld danmei about two extraordinarily stubborn men caught between love and blood debt, chosen family and justice, loyalty and revenge.

They meet as pieces on opposing sides of someone else’s game.

They fall in love at exactly the wrong time.

And once they finally turn their blades in the same direction, everyone else has a much bigger problem.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3