The World Wants Me to Die, but He Wants to Take Me Home

Is the Starburner's mission real? On the day Wen Zhao was born, the oracle announced that at the age of twenty-four, she would be sacrificed as a "Star Burner" and exchange her life for twelve years of light for the world. On the day of the sacrifice, Lu Chenye, the imperial executive responsible for escorting her, suddenly came out of the altar and took her away from the holy city. "The whole world is waiting for you to die." "So?" "I'll take you home." On the way to escape, Wen Zhao gradually discovered that the Star Burners of all generations never really died. Their consciousnesses were imprisoned deep in the sky, and their happiest memories were burned repeatedly, turning into false suns shining on the Seven Cities. And the sister that Lu Chenye desperately wanted to save was also among them. One wants to destroy the sky and free the dead; the other wants to keep the sky and bring his sister back to the world. It wasn't until the long night fell that they realized that what really needed to be saved was never this cannibalistic world, but every person chosen by the world to be sacrificed.