Juliette agrees to help Roma seek more information on the madness. Roma restrains her and takes her to the hospital, where they tranquilize her. Juliette agrees to a meeting.ĭuring the meeting, as Lord Cai and Lord Montagov argue, Roma’s younger sister Alisa exhibits symptoms of the madness. Suddenly, people start contracting the madness at the ball. Tyler Cai, Juliette’s cousin, recognizes Roma and threatens to shoot him. He dances with Juliette and proposes a meeting between the gangs to cooperate to solve the madness. Juliette does not know that Paul is the Larkspur, and that he created the madness to profit from selling the vaccine. At the masquerade, Juliette talks to Paul, who claims to work for the Larkspur, a mysterious figure who is distributing a vaccine for the madness. Her parents insist that she go so she can secure an alliance between the French and the Scarlet Gang. Paul Dexter, Walter’s son, invites Juliette to attend a ball at the French Concession. She shows the drawings to her other cousin Rosalind, who has seen the monster and confirms it is the same creature. Before the meeting, Juliette steals drawings of a monster from Zhang Gutai’s folders. He denies any involvement in the madness. Juliette and Roma both visit Zhang Gutai’s office to meet with him. She asks her cousin, Katherine, to find out where Zhang Gutai lives. Juliette discovers that the Communist leader Zhang Gutai is rumored to be responsible for the madness, which is spreading rapidly across the city. Marshall and Benedikt, Roma’s friends, inspect other victims of the madness and realize that the same insects they found at the port have burrowed into the brains of the people who died from the madness. He takes the insects to a lab where the scientist Lourens inspects them and realizes they are linked by a hive mind. At the port, he finds strange dead insects. Lord Montagov hears about the madness and sends Roma to investigate what happened. At the club, a man comes in with the sickness-referred to as “the madness”-tearing his throat out and dying. They broke up after their gangs killed their loved ones-Roma’s mother and Juliette’s Nurse-deciding they could no longer trust each other. Roma, who is the son of Lord Montagov, the White Flower’s leader, dated Juliette four years prior. She is meeting with a potential business partner, Walter Dexter, at a nightclub when Roma Montagov tells her about the deaths at the port.

Juliette Cai is the daughter of Lord Cai, leader of the Scarlet Gang.

A monster attacks them, infecting them with a sickness that causes them to kill themselves. One night, members from both gangs confront each other at the port. In Shanghai in 1926, there are two rival gangs: the Scarlet Gang, who are Chinese, and the White Flowers, who are Russian.

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