The world seems ordinary, yet everywhere there are unsettling contradictions. Changli is an ordinary man struggling on the fringes of the city. After a bloody little “accident,” he discovers in horror that the reflection in the mirror no longer belongs to him. Something cold has taken root inside him. It chose him.
He is dragged beneath the ancient shadow of an organization called the Paradox Council. Like a web, it spans the world, desperately maintaining a fragile facade while locking away in the darkness the “Anomalous Objects” that warp reality and devour lives. Razor No. 511 can freeze flesh and blood with a smile; Mist No. 321 turns concepts into poison... And Changli, armed with the eerie ability to “see through weaknesses” granted by the thing parasitizing him, becomes a new recruit tasked with handling these nightmares. His mentor, Old Liang, teaches him how to stay alive, but also lets him glimpse the rigid hierarchy and cold calculations behind the organization’s towering walls: the O5 Council that controls everything, the undisguised murderous intent in the eyes of radical leader Qiao Yu, and the indifference of senior official Yi Nanhai.
But fragments of the truth pierce through the lies. Trusted teammates bare their fangs, and a carefully planned betrayal triggers a catastrophic chain of containment failures...
