His parents have gone missing, leaving behind only a syringe and four words: “Run. Now.”
After injecting himself, Yan Ming awakens the Causality Affliction: he can gather any clues into a causal chain and make “because A, therefore B” an inevitability. The price is an equal measure of bad luck, which strikes randomly within 24 hours and cannot be avoided.
He uses his ability to turn the tables on his pursuers, only to discover that his childhood friend Li Xiao is a mole for the organization called Entropy, his roommate Hao Yun has been dragged into the Awakening Luck-Stealing Affliction, and his parents’ deaths point to an anti-government group made up of “madmen.”
“Because I’m alive, you’re all going to die.”
He walks laughing into a dead end, with misfortune exploding behind him.
But this time, the chain of causality he must bring together is the fate of the entire world.
The Genius Afflictions arrived twenty years ago, and no one can escape their price. Yan Ming’s task is to make it so no one has to pay that price ever again.
