[Survival in the apocalypse + copy of rules + non-invincible + single female protagonist]
Xia Qi awakened in the dead silence of the subway, holding a knife that cuts through the rules and a shield that can bear all injuries.
This power is never an invincible gift, but a yoke full of cracks.
Cutting off circulation requires losing one's life, resisting corrosion requires enduring severe pain, and refusing to choose requires facing rupture.
The sword is change, and the shield is order. The symbiosis of the two is a dead end for disintegration.
Su Qing is his only human anchor and his obsession to not become a rules machine.
Not to be a god, not to be a beast, not to be a ruthless cutter.
As a mortal, he shouldered all the costs, and walked a path of protection full of scars between the sword and the shield.
