My Baby Shot Me Down
Our Violent Ends (These Violent Delights, volume 2)
By Chloe Gong

29 Nov, 2021
Doing the WFC's Homework
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2021’s Our Violent Ends is the second and final volume in Chloe Gong’s These Violent Delights duology.
To paraphrase the Bard:
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Shanghai, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers (…)
The two households in question are the Scarlet Gang and the White Flowers, the two gangs that hold Shanghai in their grip. The two star-cross’d loves are the Scarlet Gang’s Juliette Cai and the White Flower’s Roma Montagov, both as smitten with each other as they are high in the councils of their respective families’ gangs.
When last we saw our leads, their rekindled love affair hit a minor road bump. As far as Roma knows, Juliette murdered the White Flower’s Marshall Seo in cold blood. Outraged, his love turns to hate. Now Roma is determined to kill Juliette as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
At least, that’s what he tells himself.