[Working-class perspective] [Dark and oppressive] [Extreme contrast] [Smart characters]
In this world, the total amount of spiritual energy is fixed. Each time the "tide" passes, the world's spiritual energy permanently diminishes.
There is a rare constitution in this world: its bearers do not cultivate, but store spiritual energy without any loss.
People with this constitution are called "vessels," commonly known as "thieves."
They are not allowed to exist.
Because they are so useful, the four great families keep them as strategic expendables.
Zhao Cheng, twenty years old, a food delivery driver in Jiangcheng.
His parents abandoned him on a set of steps, and he has spent twenty years living under someone else's name.
The only thing he wants in this life is a home.
In this world, even that has become contraband.
He steals spiritual energy, cultivation techniques, identities, and lives.
While others cultivate immortality, he fights to survive.
Until he steals a place that was never meant to be his.
Night fell. The person he was waiting for never came.
