Wei Lu knows that beside Asura he’ll face death. But what is more terrifying—accepting his fate, or trying to change it, betraying everything he believed in?" "Wei Lu, an outcast spellcaster practicing dark magic, and Asura, the empire’s best tracker, were not meant to meet. One and the same dream split each of their lives into “before” and “after.” Now Wei Lu knows that meeting the tracker will lead to his demise. And the eternal outcast will either regain freedom again or be executed. Will he sacrifice his principles and his past memories to have a chance at a new life? Or will everything end up making the situation far worse—much worse.