On the day she comes of age, Ruan Tang is forced into a horror game.
While others rely on items to clear the game, she gets by through “picking up trash.” Old school uniforms, broken wooden boxes, sailors’ logs… Somehow, she always stumbles across the key to victory.
But she has one fatal problem: her constitution is unusual. The eerie energy clings to her like a shadow, and she absorbs ten times as much as other people, with no cure in sight.
Until the seemingly aloof substitute teacher, the silent old man guarding the village, the cool-headed doctor on duty… Every one of these dimension rulers, feared by the players, gently pulls her into his arms whenever eerie energy enters her body, soothing her with kisses to dispel the chill.
She thinks it’s just a perk for clearing the game.
She has no idea that the “trash” she “picks up” consists of fragments of her own scattered soul.
She also doesn’t know that the man who keeps using “clearing the eerie energy” as an excuse to coax her into a daze and take action himself is the Chaos Sovereign who rules over every horror game. He has forgotten everything about her, yet instinctively remembers three things: keep her safe, protect her soul fragments, and, he alone is her antidote.
When her jealous best friend falls victim to a scheme, and the amnesiac monarch gathers the final fragment of her soul’s light,
he pins her, now with her memories restored, against the terrifying abyss he once ruled. He kisses away the tears at the corner of her eye, his voice hoarse and contented:
“Tangtang, your eerie energy… for the rest of this life, I’m the only one who gets to clear it.”
