One of Tomato's rare stories combining mind games, suspense, and shifts between two personalities.
Tang Yuan was an ordinary wage earner who lived in an old neighborhood west of the city. Every day, he took the subway to work and ate a fifteen-yuan boxed lunch at noon.
Until one night, when he found a dark gold card in a crack between the sidewalk tiles.
The card melted into his palm. Five minutes later, a white van stopped in front of him, and five armed men came to kill him.
Dark golden flames burst from his palm. The bullets melted before they could reach him. An ancient voice rang out from deep within his bones:
“Fear not. Give your body to me.”
When he woke, five bodies beside him were dissolving. He remembered nothing.
What he didn't know was that beyond the bright world lay a dark realm, where lives were the stakes and games of chance decided who lived or died. And the ancient dragon within him, who called itself “Huang,” charged a price for every bit of power it gave him.
Each time he used the candle flame, its roots sank deeper. If he used it to the very end, would he still be himself?
Shuhuang saw this book. The first game of wits in the early stage was a simple game of catching the flag. The psychological activities of both sides were well described, and the foreshadowing and final reversal were also amazing. It can be seen that this is the author's original story, and the world view is also relatively large. It can be seen that the author is still very ambitious. Keep up the good work!