Beneath the city’s neon lights, a black current of poison known as “Dark Energy” surges. To ordinary people, the world is only a polished facade, but Su Wan’s amber eyes can see the truth: the threads of fate wrapped around humanity are being eroded by the Dark Domain and twisted into an abyss that devours reason.
One of the rare ability users who can observe the “Dark Energy corruption level,” she meets Lu Lin, a pale-skinned demon hunter, during a bloody subway case. With a bloodstained tear mole at the corner of his eye, the man cuts through danger with a dagger smeared in Dark Energy’s black blood. But when he touches her wrist, their visions suddenly intertwine into a single scene: he sees the loneliness of her childhood, haunted by an “abnormal gaze,” while she sees him protecting his younger sister among the ruins of the Dark Domain.
During their investigations with the Ability Management Bureau, they assemble ability-enhanced firearms behind the glass curtain walls of CBD office towers and trade intelligence about the Dark Domain in the warm haze of a late-night convenience store. When Su Wan uses her fountain pen to mark an assailant’s weaknesses in a case file, Lu Lin always raps her on the head with his knuckles. “Frown again and I’ll strap you to my tactical vest when we go on duty.” And whenever she cleans Dark Energy stains from his battle-damaged trench coat, she always finds a note in the pocket that reads, “Protect your eyes.” He carved it from a piece of metal from the Dark Domain.
As attacks by the assailants grow more frequent, Su Wan discovers that the Dark Energy resonating in her pupils can reconstruct crime scenes, and every clue points to the mysterious totem tattoo below her collarbone. When Lu Lin shields her from the Dark Energy thorns rushing toward her in the Mirror Realm, she finally sees the uncertainty hidden beneath his cold expression. “Your eyes shouldn’t be used only to stare into the abyss.”
When a rift in the Dark Domain tears open in the city center...
