Living to Suffer & Till Death Us Do Part

Expected Delivery Date: Late October/Early November 2026

Pre-orders close May 25th 2026

If you order the Hardcover Bundle, you'll receive two postcards with the printed author's signature and a printed quote on the back, and the chance for an author's autograph card.
(Author signature cards will be issued at random to 40 lucky customers who purchase the hardcover bundle!)

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Introducing this popular BL duology by Tangstory!

Living to Suffer

In a ruined shrine, a torrential summer rain becomes the canvas for a fateful encounter: Shen Liangsheng, gravely wounded after a mission, lies bleeding until Doctor Ch’in Ching discovers him beneath the umbrella’s painted reeds—fragile as hope, urgent as necessity.
What begins as an act of mercy—a healer rescuing a broken weapon—spirals into a passionate, inevitable entanglement of love and loyalty. A stalk of a nocturnal herb. A brush dipped in vermillion. A bowl of noodles on a chilly night. An alley carpeted in red… Each step they take together is a step closer to destiny.
Yet their love, fierce and fleeting, blooms amidst the pain of impending doom. It’s a devotion drenched in unknown longing, a luminous moment in lives bound by sacrifice: the doctor tempting fate, and the warrior discovering the stirrings of emotion too late.

Till Death Do Us Part

In 1930s Tientsin, a city caught between a fading dynasty and encroaching empires, two lives cross like ink strokes on fragile rice paper. Ch’in Ching, a schoolteacher and crosstalker whose patriotism smoulders beneath his calm exterior, moves through the world with a scholar’s grace and a loyal heart. Shen Liangsheng, a cunning playboy and heir to a powerful warlord-turned-capitalist, wears his elegance like a mask, hiding wounds that wealth and privilege cannot mend.
Their meeting is like a half-remembered melody, distant yet familiar. What begins as curiosity sharpens into something more—an intimacy both tender and perilous, at once a refuge and a battlefield. Their bond grows quietly, like ivy scaling old walls, steadfast even as the world shakes beneath them.
Yet differences cast long shadows. Loyalties clash, choices divide, and years of silence settle where closeness once lived. And when the waters rise to swallow the city, so too do emotions once thought buried surge back with undeniable force. In a world ruled by power and peril, desire and duty, wealth and conscience, they must decide what remains when everything else is swept away.