The Blind Man, the Shadow, and the Dog

[Superpowers] [One heroine] [No saintly do-gooder] [Pure exhilaration]

Food delivery worker Jiang Fan has his corneas surgically removed in broad daylight. When he wakes up, he has fallen into an endless night.

Just as he thinks his life has collapsed for good, the mysterious “Darkness System” suddenly activates. In exchange for losing his sight, he gains the ability to reconstruct the world through “shadow analysis”:

Human body temperature appears on his retina as flowing thermal images.

A target’s moral character becomes a color code in their shadow.

He can even extract a sinner’s remaining lifespan by touching their shadow.

A spate of organ trafficking cases breaks out across Jiangcheng. Every victim, like him, was a low-income delivery worker who vanished on the job.

As Jiang Fan investigates, he discovers that the unsolved “3/17 Case” from three years ago,

a mole inside the public security system,

and the bone marrow matching records of the mysterious doctor Liu Xishan

are all threads in a vast web that devours lives.

His symbiotic dog awakens in the shadows.

The System shop’s “Exchange lifespan for power” option glows red.

And the cruelty of his girlfriend, the police questioning him,

and the kindness hidden in nurse Yin Tao’s shadow make this battle with darkness all the more baffling.

As his thermal vision sweeps the hospital corridor,

the man with a burn scar on the back of his neck, humming “Evenings in Moscow,”

is the very person who wielded the scalpel in his memories three years ago.

The blind man’s revenge begins by analyzing the first sinful shadow. This time, darkness itself is his blade.