My name is Lu Chen, I am twenty-six years old.
During the day, I ride an electric bike between office buildings and residential buildings in the city, weathering the wind and sun, just to deliver a few more takeout orders.
At night, I am a field agent of the National Security Agency, codenamed "Shadow." I wander in the shadows of the city, guarding this invisible battlefield.
I thought I was just an ordinary orphan. I was adopted by the National Security Bureau at the age of eight, started performing missions at the age of eighteen, and was just a delivery boy at the age of twenty-six.
Until that day, I bumped into a corpse on the way to deliver food.
"Experimental Subject No. 7, Recovery failed."
A note opened Pandora's box.
It turns out that my parents did not die in an accident.
It turned out that the target I had been investigating for three months was just an abandoned child.
It turns out that no one around me is simple——
My boss Shen Nian is as cool as frost, but he is a double agent.
My master, Lao Zhou, is taciturn, but he hides a shocking secret.
Even my delivery man, Liu, has an unknown past.
And myself——
My existence itself is a mystery.
When the shadow of "chess players" shrouded the entire city, when the fangs of foreign forces gradually emerged, and when the truth was peeled off layer by layer, I discovered:
The undercurrent of this city is much deeper than I imagined.
And I must become the light that pierces the darkness before dawn comes.
Even if there are no fellow travelers on this road.
Even if I am the one who falls in the end.
"From shadow to dark night, someone has to take the first step."
"That person is me."
