This book came about during the 2019 protests in Hong Kong. It features Phoenix (or Nix), a rich, privileged Hong Kong girl raised in the US but back in this city and Kai who is forced to leave Shanghai when his mother dies and whose father enrolls him in the Hong Kong police academy. 

I honestly didn't know much about these protests and what they were about but this book educated me pretty well on it. I liked that Nix joined the protests because she felt her city was changing too much and not for good. It was hard to get on board with the relationship between Kai and Nix because of all the lies he had to put on himself.