In an apocalypse where games and reality have merged, the steel forest has become a ruin overrun by monsters. Lin Yuan is the unwanted live-in son-in-law at the Gu family's apothecary, his fingers steeped in the bitterness of medicinal herbs as he silently endures the disdain of the world. Then an abyssal rift tears open in the city. With an ancient bronze mirror in hand, he awakens countless ancient beasts sleeping in the shadows. The moment he takes his aloof wife by the hand, their spiritual powers resonate, and frost spreads beneath their feet. Those Hosts of the System who lord it over others, and the arrogant demon kings, will all eventually fall beneath the shadow of the myriad beasts bowing in worship. This is a redemption that begins amid the ruins of the common folk, and a faint light he and the women at his side kindle together in the darkness.
