Night Dust Rising 夜尘崛起 Book 1 by H

Story Notes

Welcome to Serenox.

This is not a story about heroes. This is about survival, sex, violence, and the spaces between—where people fuck and fight and sometimes find something worth protecting in the wreckage.

Night Dust Rising is told from Ling Yecheng’s perspective (first person), with occasional third-person chapters for lore, flashbacks, and scenes he doesn’t witness. The world is brutal. The characters are damaged. The romance is messy. The sex is sensory and real, not sanitized.

Content warnings: Violence, sexual content, substance use, trauma, body horror, self-harm references, systemic oppression, and themes of existential dread. This story goes dark. But it also finds light in unexpected places.

If you’re here for power fantasies and easy answers, this isn’t it. If you’re here for broken people finding strength in each other while the universe tries to kill them—welcome home.

-Hirad Khademian

Summary

In a city where gods sleep and mortals crawl, Ling Yecheng survives with a camera in one hand and a blade in the other. By day, he captures beauty in decay. By night, he bleeds in underground rings to feed himself and the broken fox who shares his bed. But when his hidden power awakens—a fragment of the cosmic war that nearly destroyed reality—Ling becomes the target of criminal syndicates, Noble assassins, and forces that remember when mortals dared to challenge Heaven and Hell. In the vertical slums of Luminarch, where sex is currency and violence is language, one photographer with a missing eye and a robotic arm will either rise above the dust... or become it. • Dark Urban Fantasy • Mature Themes • LGBTQ+ Romance • Cosmic Horror