A Promise Beneath the Moonlight

Jiang Yu and Julian Ashford were sons of families that had been friends for generations. Born on the same day of the same month of the same year, they had been at each other's throats since they were in diapers. When they were eight years old, the two were kidnapped and locked in a pitch-dark basement for three whole days. Julian Ashford shielded Jiang Yu—who was a head shorter than him at the time—with his own body, taking the kidnappers' brutal beating for him. After they were rescued, Julian Ashford was left with permanent scars and also developed severe claustrophobia. From then on, Jiang Yu threw himself into combat training like a madman. On the surface, he still clashed with Julian Ashford at every turn, but behind the scenes, like a silent wolf, he guarded this person with fierce, unwavering watchfulness. More than a decade passed, and the two maintained a strange, tacit understanding—they would quarrel the moment they met, yet neither could truly leave the other.