Twenty-three years after the sun went out, Gray Harbor lives on an artificial sun.
Zhou Ye is the lowest-level relic collector in the city, responsible for transporting corpses and counting relics every day. Three years ago, his sister Zhou Ying disappeared, and the authorities gave him a complete death certificate.
Until that day, he took out the silver firefly hairpin worn by Zhou Ying from the chest of a strange corpse.
Her voice came from the hairpin:
"Brother, today is the one thousand and ninety-sixth day since I was burned to death."
Zhou Ye searched all the way into the Gray Port restricted area and finally saw his sister inside the artificial sun.
Every morning, the ten seconds before Zhou Ying's death are rekindled. Her screams turned into light, her pain turned into heat, and the entire city relied on her to be burned to death again and again, surviving three long nights.
By turning off the sun, Zhou Ying can end the cycle.
Millions of people in Gray Harbor will immediately lose light, heat, and the last barrier to the monsters outside the city.
Everyone is forcing Zhou Ye to make a choice.
But no one asked Zhou Ying if she was willing to continue burning.
