Su Nian, the youngest associate professor of psychology at A University, was losing one of humanity's most basic abilities: sleep.
This wasn't ordinary insomnia. It was fatal familial insomnia. Sleeping pills were useless, and medicine had given her a death sentence. On the afternoon of her sixth sleepless day, she walked into a mysterious laboratory called Black Diamond. A man stood behind the door. He did nothing but draw near, and she fell asleep peacefully in his arms.
It was a case unlike anything ever recorded in the history of this terminal illness. He handed her a contract, and the moment Su Nian signed her name, she had no idea who the laboratory had been built for. Nor did she know whether this encounter was a chance arrival of hope, or a carefully designed hunt.
