I’m just an ordinary high school student. My daily routine is classes, exams, and waiting for rice noodle rolls.
Until one day, I blacked out at a breakfast shop and woke up lying on a cold operating table, with a device strapped to my waist and a card glowing with an eerie light in my hand.
“Duo” technology can enable room-temperature nuclear fusion, rewrite biological traits, and slice information clusters out of subspace… It can also turn people into weapons.
Some use it to create “Pessimists,” turning pain into monsters. Others use it to build the “Tower of Babel,” devouring the sense of self of three billion people with a perfect illusion.
My father left me the “Medicine” card and said, “Use it to save people.”
The enemy sows pain with “Bitter Seeds” and asks me:
“Is the real world really any better than this?”
I take my seven cards and walk through that door, climbing that tower.
Not to fight, but to make them see…
See the wounds on their necks, see people with insulated lunch boxes growing out of their hands, see someone crouching by the doorway eating cold mala tang, crying as they eat, then asking a stranger, “Have you had breakfast?”
I am Jiang Xianyue, also known as “Tianze.”
This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary student who became “Tianze.”
As for what happens next… I honestly don’t know either.
