Shattered Flame

[Two male leads + apocalypse + two powerful leads + adversarial dynamic]

C: In the end times, there’s always a fire waiting to start, one that burns until gods and bones are reduced to ashes and flesh is torn from bone. Our goal is to put that fire out.

J: So you’re the savior, then.

C: No, I’m a forest firefighter.

J: ???

The only four-star general in the history of Twin Stars, the youngest leader in the history of its base (the Twin Stars Base has a grand total of two years of history), the thirty-first martial arts champion in the martial world (the martial arts factions have five members left), and founder of the “None of Your Business, None of Mine” school of minding your own business: Xia Ci’an, a shut-in straight man who’s all three in one, is forced to save the world after an “unexpected” bout of sleepwalking.

And so his one and only AAA-rated archenemy acts pitiful: [Please help me, okay? You’re all I have left.]

Then turns around and nearly clubs him with a stick.

A cross-dressing master of slacking off, who plays the part of a sweet and coquettish girl, says: [How could this happen? I like you best, Brother Ci!]

Then turns around and sells him out to his archenemy.

A professional hacker from Fataka says: [See? You need me too, right?]

Then turns around, hacks into his email and classified files, and spreads them far and wide.

Faced with a disastrous start, abandoned by everyone and surrounded by enemies, Xia Ci’an, a man with nothing to his name, decides he can’t keep slacking off. He gives a mocking smile and says, “I’m not much, but I do happen to be number one in the world.”

“It’s just saving the world. You people should stay out of it, don’t you think?”

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Note: There’s a heads-up at the end of Chapter One, so be sure to read it first!