By day, Zhou Ye is a delivery rider chased by bad reviews. By night, he is a Godslayer hunted by the Divine Court. His insulated delivery box holds his daughter's favorite sweet-and-sour ribs, but it also conceals a blade capable of cleaving divine wings: the weapon at the heart of his symbiotic pact with the "Nightblade" personality inside him.
When a kindergarten teacher turns into a divine emissary who harvests children's innocence, and a monster wearing his late wife's face comes for his daughter, he discovers that he is the 30th-generation Host of the ancient Godslayer Pavilion. Sealed within him is the original God of War, dismembered by the gods. And the rag doll in his daughter Xiaomeng's arms can actually mend cracks in divine natures. Humanity's purest emotions are the Divine Court's most feared weapons for killing gods.
The Divine Court builds a "False Heaven" above the city, harvesting adults' hopes through trending topics and draining children's imaginations through early-learning apps. Zhou Ye rides his electric scooter through the streets at midnight. His blade evolves with every pang of "anxiety about being late" and every flare of "a father's fury," transforming from a dinner knife into a lightsaber forged from millions of cries of "Dad." Before the Nightblade personality completely devours him, he must lead his daughter and a band of Awakened fighters armed with "motherly-love goggles" and "overworked-office-worker fists" to break through the Divine Court's emotional barrier.
"The gods want to take away children's fairy tales? Then they'll have to ask the knife in my delivery box if it agrees." When his daughter says through her tears, "I believe in Dad," Zhou Ye's back sprouts rebellious divine wings woven from threads of human emotion. As his blade points toward the Divine Court in the clouds, all the ordinary people whose smiles have been stolen will finally understand: the humble warmth of everyday human life is the spark that can bring down the gods.
