Wen Han has arrived in Nepal on vacation and, as a Buddhist believer, also a pilgrimage. But very shortly after entering the borders, she runs in again into someone she had had one encounter with six months ago, hundreds of miles away on the far-off Tibetan Plateau. He, at the time, had been a monk. But now, when she saw him, he had returned to the secular life and carried a gun on him. She inadvertently gets to know this man, Cheng Muyun, more, and each time, as another layer of him is revealed, she is both terrified and drawn to him. A rogue? A criminal? Or something else? Dangerous, yes. Yet, he can be so tender. But always magnetic. With each step closer that she gets to him, though, Wen Han, an ordinary, 1/4-Chinese girl from Moscow, is drawn more into a dangerous, frightening world she had never before imagined. And with each step, as she understands this man named Cheng Muyun more, her heart falls more for him, deeper and deeper, until the thought of being apart from him is too hard to bear. But, they are fated to separate-from the very first day, he had told her that.
All Ty ever wanted was to make it in life while having a strong, Black educated man beside her to support her dreams. The only thing Ty wants more than those two things is to travel the world and to experience other cultures. After stacking up funds for over a year, Ty finally has enough money to take a dream vacation to Shanghai, China for her 25th birthday. Her plan is simple, go to Shanghai for 9 days, party her fucking life away, and bring her ass right back home to the streets of West Baltimore. However, things are never that simple, and when all hell breaks loose while her two best friends and herself are on the other side of the world, they find themselves in trouble and unable to make it back home. When all hope is lost, Ty meets a guy named Lei who offers to help her and her friends return to the United States in exchange for a date. It seems like a harmless proposal, so Ty agrees to his offer without knowing the shit she is about to get herself into.