(If I can’t write something good, surely I can write something bad. All I’m going for is a melodramatic, bizarre tale that will move the whole world. Ultraman: The Son-in-Law is the goal of this book. If you aren’t moved after 30 chapters, feel free to curse me out.)
My name is Lin Jin. I’m 23, my Shadow Power level is 2, my weakness index is off the charts, and my life’s ambition is to escape the dungeon alive.
But as soon as I sat down, the shadow beneath my feet opened a PowerPoint titled “Why You’re a Loser: 5,732nd Revised Edition.” With “Love You Till Death” playing in the background, it announced, “I’m you as a god 100,000 years from now, and I’m your mom. From now on, you’re under my care.”
From then on, my life went completely off the rails. It forced me to kill people, threatening to loop “BabyBus” if I refused;
it forced me to eat candy, saying it was “the currency of maternal love”;
It made me marry my shadow and set up the “Shadow Love Marriage Bureau,” livestreaming our divorce case to the entire universe. It told me: Your dad is your dad’s shadow, your mom turned into that rusty pair of scissors, and you’re the illegitimate child of the God of Light.
I cut it, and it laughed. “You’re only cutting a clone.”
I killed a god, and it cried. “Mommy’s heart is breaking.”
I became a god, and it whispered before dying, “Shadows never die.”
But when the God of Light returned to cleanse everything, I finally understood: the Shadow God wasn’t the end. The God of Light was the one who started it all. And the scissors that were my mom had sealed the Shadow Abyss, home to 90,000 vengeful souls.
Then came an avalanche of melodrama: a lovesick shadow, maternal love turned into a System, the Shadow God as an illegitimate child from the God of Light’s harem, a shadow strike demanding pension and insurance benefits, a pregnant shadow giving birth and taking my surname...
When the Shadow Abyss opened and the vengeful souls roared, I took my pregnant shadow’s hand and walked into the abyss.
In the end, the shadow became a god, the light knelt, and the universe heard its first cry
They called me:
The Shadow God’s Dad.
