Su Mo woke beneath an ancient tree in a southern mountain village, his memories completely blank.
People from Cassell College found him and said he was an A-rank Hybrid. His Word Spirit was Mirror Eyes, its sequence number unknown. Only one user was known: Zero.
So he enrolled at Cassell, in the same year as Lu Mingfei, and lived next door to Fingel. Classes, exams, meals at the cafeteria: everything was normal.
Until, on Free Day, he accidentally copied Chu Zihang’s Blazing Tide.
Until, beneath the Three Gorges, a dragon stopped attacking when it saw him.
Until, beneath the Arctic ice, his fingerprint revealed a name that appeared in no human records.
Someone knew who he was. The vice-principal knew. Zero knew. Maybe Angers knew too. But none of them said a word.
And the woman in white who kept appearing in his dreams always left him with the same words.
He said, “If I don’t even know myself, how can I know anyone else?”
She said, “Then remember.”
He didn’t know if he wanted to know the answer.
But the answer was looking for him.
