Summary
Jiang Xun lives alone—or so he believes. Two toothbrushes, midnight humming, and a mirror that no longer reflects him reveal Yan, a sentient double born from his buried ambition, loneliness, and desire. Yan wants a body, a bed, and a place in Jiang Xun’s life, but his possessive help soon threatens to consume the writer he claims to understand best. As fear gives way to uneasy cohabitation, creative partnership, and intimacy, Jiang Xun must decide whether his mirror self is a monster bent on replacing him or the one person capable of accepting every hidden part of him.