In AD 2897, the Milky Way was divided due to the energy of the Star Corps - the Alliance monopolized resources, the Corpse Shadow resold contaminated debris, and the Free Starships fought for marginal planets.
Ling Shuang, the chief analyst of the alliance, is also a survivor of star pollution. She clutched her family's relics and used data analysis to track down the perpetrators of the pollution, vowing to make the energy of the star bones no longer only serve the privileged. While following the black market clues, she happened to meet Lu Chen, the leader of the Free Star Fleet who had betrayed the Alliance - the man who was rumored to be "cold and murderous".
A melee accidentally triggers the mark of the ancient star bones, and the two people's lives are bound from then on: one party is seriously injured, and the other party is simultaneously weakened. Only by working together to find the source of the mark can the mark be lifted. What's even more shocking is that the "missing planet resources case" they were pursuing was actually the same conspiracy, and the man behind it was Ling Shuang's most respected mentor and the deputy speaker of the alliance, Gu Mingyuan.
Gu Mingyuan vainly attempted to use star skeletal pollution to cleanse the fringe planets and create an "Elite Era"; Ling Shuang and Lu Chen had to cross camps, guarding each other while fighting side by side against the skeletal beasts and the alliance fleet. She used data analysis to break the situation, and he relied on starship tactics to get the answer; she saw his clumsiness in mistaking detergent for nutrition, and he prepared purifying aromatherapy for her in advance but concealed it with his hard words.
When the truth is revealed from the broken pages of the Star Codex, and the survival of the marginalized planet is on the line, these "two strong" pairs will finally play a game of chess to break the monopoly and protect all living beings in the universe densely packed with stars. Their relationship will also move from "forced symbiosis" to "dependence on life and death" in the smoke of gunfire.
