[Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Angsty Romance + Face-Slapping Comeback]
Shen Mu, 28, seems like the least successful worker in a shared apartment in the urban villages: a property security guard who also delivers food.
His real identity is “Shadow,” the only S-rank operative in the secret national action group known as “Tianshu.”
He has an ability called “Protective Sacrifice.”
He can take on calamities and their costs for anyone or anything. Even the destruction of an entire city is something he can shoulder alone.
The price is that the people he protects will never sense his existence.
For ten years, he has silently guarded the city of Yunhai like a shadow.
He single-handedly resolved 17 national-level crises.
No one gave him a medal or threw him a celebration, because no one knew what he had done.
His superior, Zhou Zhengyang, repeatedly took credit for his achievements.
Shen Mu didn’t care.
That is, until his final mission. Betrayed by Zhou Zhengyang, he was trapped in a death zone and “died” in the explosion.
He woke up in the hospital and chose to disappear.
Covered in scars, he hid in the urban villages and went back to being the unnoticed working stiff.
He wanted to see whether the world would become better without him.
The answer was no.
The city began to suffer one crisis after another, disasters struck frequently, Zhou Zhengyang panicked, and the people who had once mocked Shen Mu panicked too.
“Where’s Shen Mu? That security guard?”
“No way! He was just a delivery guy!”
Shen Mu lay in his rented room, scrolling through the endless missing-person notices on his phone, and lit a cigarette.
“You won’t find me.”
“Because I’m done taking the hit for you.”
Gone
