Li Jin, a former special forces psychological warfare expert, destroyed his military career after accidentally injuring a civilian on a mission. Taciturn, he is skilled at reading the enemy’s emotional shifts and turning them into pressure. An experimental “neural resonator,” implanted in him as part of a secret military project, lets him briefly take control of other people’s fear memories. He isn’t a killer, yet he can drive enemy commanders to collapse in their sleep. His goal is to find the senior officials who ordered the evidence destroyed years ago, while also stopping the “Soul-Seizing Project” from spreading.
Shen Yan Xiao, the current commander of the “Black Crow Special Operations” unit, is cold and rational, and was once Li Jin’s partner. He believes psychological warfare is the ultimate weapon in war and is secretly pushing the military to expand the “Soul-Seizing Project,” using prisoners in human experiments. He and Li Jin swore a blood oath to each other, but their beliefs have driven them completely apart. His secret is that his younger sister was one of the civilians Li Jin accidentally injured years ago. He himself is still alive, but has been brainwashed into becoming the first vessel of the “Soul-Seizing Project.”
The story of Li Jin and Shen Yan Xiao begins with a fateful encounter, then gradually draws them into a larger web of relationships and trials of growth.
