Lin Yi was an ordinary college student whose every hope had been crushed by reality.
To protect the woman he loved, he drained his parents’ life savings, sold their only home, and gave everything he had to pay off a six-million-yuan “life-saving debt.”
But every vow of eternal love had been part of a carefully woven lie.
Instead of a desperate plea for help from his beloved, he got only the contemptuous mockery of his girlfriend and her rich boyfriend. His limbs were shattered, his eyes gouged out, and his body hurled into the freezing black sea.
As he sank into the depths, overwhelmed by despair and on the brink of death, an ancient demon god offered him a contract.
“Give me your soul and serve me for eternity. In return, I shall grant you the power to reshape all things.”
When he opened his eyes again, Lin Yi had become the demon god’s agent in the mortal world. He wielded the authority of the abyss, commanded limitless resources, and possessed the terrifying ability to trade away or steal other people’s lives.
He had thought revenge would be the end of everything.
But as a world hidden in the mirror surfaced, a century-old plan to create a vessel slowly came to light.
The so-called demon god was no ruler from beyond the heavens, but a prisoner shackled in an ancient cage.
The immense power he had gained had been nothing but a bridal robe prepared for him as a vessel from the very beginning.
The catalyst-sacrifice program closed in, and the tragedy of the thirty-seventh Zero repeated itself.
Beneath the ruined city, dark golden vertical pupils slowly opened, ready to break their seal and return to the world.
Revenge was only the prologue.
Only after his former enemies had become insignificant specks of dust did Lin Yi see clearly that the fate he had reclaimed from the abyss had already been swept into a shocking conspiracy spanning the ages.
Would he become the perfect body for a prisoner of the cage, expend everything, and be sacrificed, or break the fate of being a pawn passed down from generation to generation?
