Xue Yang and Wei Wu Xian team up as tortured children on the street who have their own idea of what is right and wrong. They don't know that their activities have brought them to the attention of the cultivation world. The Wen clan wants to use them, many other sects and clans want them captured or killed. Wu Xian just wants to rest, he's tired of fighting for his life everyday, and no matter how much he loves Xue Yang, he's growing tired of taking care of him as well. Xue Yang can sense him pulling away and holds on tighter, putting them both at the end of their mental ropes when suddenly another young cultivator arrives on the scene. Lan Wang Ji is everything they're not. He is light to their dark, rationality to their insanity, compassion to their terror. Will he give them a chance? Will Xue Yang allow him to? Can they both be saved or are they too far gone?