At a blood-soaked wedding, he crushed a missile with his bare hands, while she hid poison in a silver needle.
This deadly bargain marked the beginning of the end, and the rebirth of a thousand-year-old cycle of fate.
Zhan Long, a retired God of War, vanished from public view three years ago under the accusation of treason. The world saw him as the Su family's useless live-in son-in-law, never guessing that the hearing aid in his left ear played on a loop a warning recording of an alien civilization, bought at the cost of 300,000 soldiers' lives.
Su Yajing, a pharmaceutical company CEO, was a gentle and devoted wife by day and the mysterious “Azure Phoenix” of the dark web by night. Only when the blood she coughed up formed a phoenix totem on the mirror did she realize that the ancestral bronze wine cup concealed a Shang Dynasty star map capable of rewriting human genes.
When Deep Space Group's AI warriors swept through the underground fighting rings, Zhan Long used a virus programmed in oracle bone script to cripple quantum satellites. When Wall Street's financial sharks offered a fortune for Su Yajing's heart, she retaliated by selling encrypted files that triggered a global financial tsunami.
As the bronze sacred tree broke through the atmosphere, the two embraced amid the thunderstorm and finally understood the truth.
The so-called son-in-law contract was a blood pact between an ancient God of War and a priestess, spanning three thousand years.
The so-called business marriage was a self-preservation program inscribed into human DNA by an alien civilization.
“You want the world to worship me as a god, but all I want is to be the last blade in your endless night.”
“If I'm destined to turn to ash at twenty-five, then use my ashes as navigation coordinates and send yourself back to Yin Ruins to finish the kiss we never got to share.”
This was a war to defend civilization in the name of love. There were no saviors, only two ordinary people who refused to bow, stubbornly rewriting humanity's final chapter beneath the dome of the apocalypse.
