• Summary

During Grand Elder Bai’s birthday banquet, the always mysterious Feng Long, the Alliance Leader of Wulin, came to personally offer his birthday wishes, making the old man brimming with smiles.When the distinguished guest graced everyone with his presence, the joyous atmosphere grew even stronger. Whilst the eyes of the crowd as well as their admiration and envy focused on the pride of Wulin, Feng Long’s eyes, instead fell upon the most inconspicuous corner of the birthday banquet.“I, Feng Long, am untalented. To think that there is such a handsome new talent in Wulin. May I ask this honorable friend for your name?”The people from the Bai family secretly frowned. The guests in the hall were also distinguished and outstanding talents, why was it that the stain of the Bai Family, the most unloved by his father, the third young master of the Bai Family, who was not even allowed to learn the Bai family’s style of martial arts, had attracted the attention of the Alliance Leader, Feng Long?This is the world-famous Bilu sword?After one meeting, Bai Shaoqing immediately came to a conclusion: this person was powerful, he should not stay any longer at the Bai Family Manor. Out of the thirty-six stratagems, fleeing was the best answer.

• Why Read?

🔻 It has a very sexy trope! It's enemies and sworn brothers and lovers to enemies again to master-disciple to lovers. Your fav tropes all in one ✔
The main couple were enemies (real enemies who will kill each other, not just bickering couple) but also sworn brothers at the same time who were pining for each other, then betraying each other and back to be enemies + having shifu-disciple relationship + lovers. Their dynamic is.... quite complex indeed.🔻 Partner in crime? Yes. They both are villains of the martial arts world. The two of them were deceiving each other, both pretends to be a righteous person but are actually evil. If you are looking for a madman x madman, villains couple, yanderes, morally grey characters, antihero protagonists, this novel is for you!🔻 Read for the heavy sexual tension between the main couple! And them yearning for each other while also thinking of how to take the other down.🔻 Bat is not a sweet romance story, it is dark and toxic, it contains lot of triggering things which needed readers to proceed with caution, but if you like/is okay with that kind of story then this novel is for you~ Remember to read the warnings below ( ≧Д≦)
Anyway, here's a twitter recommendation thread click here!

• Main Characters

• Supporting Characters

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↭SUPPORTING CHARACTERS↭
• Sima Fan: Young master of Sima family, had profound martial arts skills that comparable to Feng Long
• Xiang Lenghong: The Junior/Vice-Sect Leader of Zhengyi Sect (XLH in the novel is a man)
• Sima Tian: The current patriarch of Sima family, still young but have superior martial arts
• Feng Jun: Feng Long's trusted subordinate
• Fang Nihong: The daughter of Huashan Sect's leader, has a crush on Bai Shaoqing
• Xiao Mo: A brave and honest martial artist
• Bai Moran: The current patriarch of Bai family, Bai Shaoqing's father
• Song Xiangli: Bai Moran's legitimate wife
• Bai Shaoli: Bai Moran's eldest son
• Bai Shaoxin: Bai Moran's second son, has a secret affair with Bai Shaoqing
• Shui Yun'er and Shui Yue'er: Feng Long's twins subordinate
• Xu Heqing: Xu family's leader, Sima Fan's brother in-law
• Sima Yan: Xu Heqing's wife
• Xiao Jie: A female martial artist who disguised as a man
• Xu Lingxiu, Ning Fuxin, Ning Feiyu: Original characters from the LA————————————♡————————————
↭BACKGROUND WORLD↭
• There are four great families in Jianghu; Feng, Bai, Sima, and Xu.
The Bai family is the wealthiest of the four.
• Bai Shaoqing is the third son, the youngest, and the illegitimate son of the Bai Family. His biological mother is a blind woman who lived in Shen Mountain. While his two elder brothers are the legitimate sons of Bai Moran and Song Xiangli.
• The word "Bat" in the title is the nickname of Bai Shaoqing, the serial killer and the public enemy of the Wulin. He likes to leave a dried bat near the crime scene as his signature so people call the killer "The Bat".

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