Once the mightiest of the Guardians, he has become a live-in son-in-law of the Su family. Is the ancient flame hidden within him a lifesaving gift or a curse of destruction?
Lin Jin was once the Guardians Alliance’s greatest fighter, codenamed “Seraphim,” defending the front lines of human civilization with his own flesh and blood. But a long-planned betrayal cost him his comrades during a mission and left him on the brink of death. In his darkest hour, an ancient [Seed of Civilization] forcibly fused with his heart. It granted him extraordinary power to devour the energy of all things, but also planted a curse of madness that could consume his mind at any moment.
Now he is the “useless son-in-law” despised by everyone in the Su family of Lincheng. Driving a battered off-road vehicle with chipped paint and blasting deafening rock music all day, he plays the ignorant delinquent amid the Su family’s scorn and ridicule, a joke for them to laugh at. Even Su Yan, his aloof wife with whom he signed a contract, loathes him, seeing their marriage as nothing more than a transaction of mutual convenience.
But no one knows what raging tides lie beneath that “useless” exterior
The Pangu Technology he founded in secret appears to be an ordinary company developing security systems, but in truth it searches the globe for scattered Seeds of Civilization. Every seemingly casual move he makes is part of a web he is secretly weaving to turn fate around. Each time his fusion with the Seed grows by 1%, he gets closer to uncovering the truth behind the betrayal, and one step closer to losing control to madness.
When underground forces push Su Yan’s company to the brink, when the shadow of the Temple of the Gods, whose followers worship ancient gods and demons, falls over Lincheng, and when the Seed within him stirs on the verge of breaking its limits
Lin Jin knows his days in hiding are over.
