Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 02

Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 02, the modern fantasy danmei / Boys’ Love trilogy about gods, ghosts, and supernatural investigations! 

THE SLEEPING GOD STIRS

As snow quietly covers Dragon City in the final days of the lunar year, patients writhing in pain flock to the hospital. Baffled doctors call upon Zhao Yunlan and his team for help. As the case unfolds, Shen Wei and Zhao Yunlan discover that one of the Four Hallowed Artifacts, the Merit Brush, has appeared in the Mortal Realm. In the wrong hands, its power can be transformative.

While each step toward the artifact only pulls the pair deeper into a vortex of mysteries, Zhao Yunlan keeps stumbling upon a name: Kunlun. Who is Kunlun, and what is his connection to the Merit Brush? As Zhao Yunlan closes in on the answer, will he also uncover the truth behind Shen Wei’s knowing gaze?

Biographical Notes:

Priest is a bestselling and award-winning Chinese author known for a large body of work, including several popular danmei series. priest’s works have been translated into many languages and adapted into animated shows, audio dramas, comics, and live-action dramas, and include hits Guardian: Zhen Hun, Bandits/Legend of Fei, Faraway Wanderers/Word of Honor, and Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang.

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A live-action drama series based on the novels, titled Guardian, aired in 2018 to huge global success (1.8 billion views in its first few months). It remains available to watch with English subtitles on several online platforms, including Viki and YouTube.

This is the first official English release of the original danmei novel series, including all the romantic content often censored in various releases. Each volume–prose with black and white illustrations–will feature translations and exclusive cover and interior artwork from passionate and prominent names in Western fandom.

Perfect for the fans of The three MXTX danmei novels–Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Heaven Official’s Blessing, and The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System–as well as other Chinese danmei franchises that are on the rise thanks to the popularity of MXTX’s works, like The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, other works of author Priest (such as Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang and Faraway Wanderers/Word of Honor), and Thousand Autumns. Also for fans of modern urban fantasy/paranormal TV series like Supernatural and X-Files; Chinese fantasy (xianxia); fantasy from China focused on martial artist heroes (wuxia) like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Boys’ Love (romanticized love between two men) in fiction from around the world.

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