In a radiation-ravaged wasteland, Lin Wei was branded a “failed genetic modification.” At the brink of death, she was cruelly abandoned in the eye of a deadly radiation storm by the sentinel she had loved with all her heart, her ex-husband Gu Yan, an elite captain. Just as death closed in, a mysterious power hidden deep in her left arm abruptly awakened, instinctively devouring the radiation around her and wrenching her back from death’s grasp. But this awakening was no blessing. Each time she used her right hand, it was like rolling the dice on life and death, with unknown, potentially fatal side effects lurking close behind.
Her struggle to survive became a contest among four powerful forces. There was her remorseful ex-husband Gu Yan, still bound by the duties imposed on him by those in power; her older brother Ye Zheng, who endured experiments and became a half-werewolf to protect her; her former schoolmate Huo Lin, a rebel leader driven mad by ambition, who wanted to use her genes as the key to human evolution; and her mentor Rosen, who held the key to her lost memories and controlled everything from a mechanical wheelchair. Lin Wei pressed on through one deadly crisis after another. Each time her left arm greedily absorbed energy, it unlocked another sealed chamber in her memories, gradually revealing a truth that overturned everything she knew: she was the true creator of the Apocalypse virus that had swept across the world and shaped the wasteland around her. The “inferior product” of the past was, in truth, a deity with dominion over destruction and creation. When all those fighting over her gathered in the ruins of the “City of Eternal Life,” a symbol of former glory, hoping to divide up her power and secrets, the awakened Lin Wei struck back amid blood and fire, declaring to the world