Seventeen-year-old Lu Jin is the most ordinary person in this city - a part-time job in a convenience store earning 12 yuan an hour, a leaky rental house, a corridor light that is always flickering, and a father who disappeared seventeen years ago leaving only a silver lighter.
He thought his life would be like this, like the corridor light, always flashing, never extinguished, and never bright.
Until that rainy night.
A woman holding a black umbrella appeared in the light and told him: It's time for you to go to school.
Shoujin Academy. An old building hidden among the neon lights of the city is home to a group of people with flames in their bodies - Emberborn. They guard a fire that has been burning for a thousand years, and they also guard a secret that cannot be told.
According to legend, the last fire left behind when Ancestor Jin fell. It can burn out all the fire in the world, and it can also rekindle what has been extinguished.
From that day on, Lu Jin's life was completely rewritten. He met Pei Zhaoye, an A-level boy who was familiar with him, Gu Qingshuang, who was as cold as ice but always protected him at critical moments, and Bai Shenyan, an S-level aristocrat who always looked at him like a loser.
He thought he finally found where he belonged. But the nest of ashes in the back mountain, the fire with the same name in the underground palace of the school, the gray-eyed portrait of the same name in the corridor, and the pile of letters left by his father that he didn't even remember writing.
He is not the protagonist of this story.
He is the story itself.
That fire should have been extinguished a thousand years ago, but it continues to burn to this day, burning him.
And the price of burning up all the fires in the world is that even he himself will be burned up by that fire.
