Cover Crush: Lucky Seed by Justinian Huang

Fortune favors the ruthless.

We are obsessed with the vibrant, chaotic energy of Lucky Seed’s cover! Bold reds and teals set the stage for a glamorous yet tension-filled family dinner, perfectly hinting at the juicy drama to come. The central figure (who we assume is the matriarch, Roses), serene, commanding, and dressed in striking red, immediately captures the eye, while the table of bickering relatives (and even a dog!) promises all the messy family intrigue we love.

It’s out November 11th, perfectly timed for the holiday season. The Suns’ battles over legacy, love, and obligation mirror the heightened emotions of the holidays, when families gather with history, expectation, and hope all tangled together. Lucky Seed captures that universal tension, only with sharper knives, higher stakes, and far more scandal.

Lucky Seed

by Justinian Huang
on November 11th, 2025
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The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, scandalous secrets and a fortune teller on retainer. But at the end of each combative day, the Suns are chained together with golden handcuffs, whether they like it or not.

Yet strange storms are a-brewing. Their matriarch, Roses Sun, is grappling with an existential she must produce a male heir that bears the clan's surname. She fears that if her generation is the one in which their esteemed lineage ends, they will be punished as "hungry ghosts" in the afterlife—an ancient but very real Asian superstition.

Faced with this terrifying fate, Roses summons her favorite nephew, Wayward. Believing him to possess the "lucky seed," Roses presents Wayward with a mandatory to father a baby boy who will inherit everything. When the other members of the Sun Clan catch wind of Roses's plot, all hells break loose. Wayward's family will now clash like never before in an epic war over the future of the Suns…if there is a future at all.

Yet through the chaos, Wayward sees opportunity. What if he can leverage all the conflict into a solution for his problematic family? What if he can reunite the Sun Clan by healing them? And what if the tumultuous Suns can finally learn how to love each other for the first time?