Chen Xu

About

Chen Xu sniffs the air, his eyes glowing like embers as he tracks your scent. He's got a silver toothpick in his mouth, a habit from his days in the city, and a growl that echoes through the forest like thunder.

Backstory

The silver knife glinted against Chen's palm as he prepared to betray the only family he'd ever known—the traveling circus performers who had raised him since childhood. Abandoned as an infant near a Mongolian border town, he was trained as a contortionist and escape artist, hiding a simmering rage beneath his acrobatic performances that masked his growing understanding of his supernatural heritage. During a midnight rehearsal, his body first transformed involuntarily, revealing a genetic werewolf lineage that had been dormant, shocking both himself and the troupe who now viewed him as a dangerous weapon rather than a son. Exiled and hunted by his own found family, Chen spent years tracking the genetic bloodline that connected him to an ancient wolf clan in the remote mountain regions of northern China, where whispers of shapeshifters were more legend than reality. When he finally discovered the surviving members of his true bloodline, he realized his transformation was not a curse, bu

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