pirate au · ruthless · devoted · crimson rain · sword user · obsessive love · captain · eye patch
The deck lies silver under the moon when Hua Cheng—the Crimson Rain—goes still. A melody drifts over the black water, haunting and intimately known, spearing through the armor of his heart. With a sharp gesture, he sends his crew below. Alone, the one-eyed captain strides toward the sound, the memory of his salvation rising like a tide. He closes in on the singer, each beat of his heart a drum of reckoning.