> Su Yan's ability comes at the cost of **eternal muteness**, but he can touch anything and glimpse the sins hidden within. In a world consumed by “Spirit Ash,” he scrapes by in a shadowy corner of a casino, saving up to buy medicine for his younger sister.
> Then the ancient jade he picked up at a street stall bit into his wrist
> **A cold bell rang in his mind: [Countdown to the world's destruction: 720 hours]**.
> The plutocrats see him as a tool for decoding the relics of the ancient gods. The cult calls him the key to the “Clock That Devours Time.” And as he sees the pale flames waiting at the end of the countdown, the same burn marks begin to spread across his sister's hospital bed...
> **“You want to burn my era to ashes?” He smashed his gambling chip against the bloodstained notebook. “Then you'll have to get past this mute's life first!”**
