In her previous life, Chen Ran gave Lin Zhaoye his whole heart, only to end up jumping to his death.
Reborn two months before the virus outbreak, Chen Ran resolved to cut all ties with Lin Zhaoye. He moved, renovated his new home, and stockpiled food, hoping only to find some forgotten place where he could live alone until the virus ended.
Only when the two met again on the streets of a ruined city did Chen Ran realize that the gears of fate had started turning long ago.
The apocalypse was not judging humanity. It was judging the truth.
As layer after layer of memory was torn away, he finally discovered:
The so-called “death trap” was the purge by the higher-ups that Lin Zhaoye had shielded him from with his own flesh and blood.
It turned out he had never escaped at all. He had only been protected at the cost of another man's life,
which was how he came by the absurd good fortune of having died young in his previous life.
Reader's Guide:
1. An initially tight-lipped, homophobic, later powerful and sinister ghost of an attacker x a strong-willed recipient who loves boldly and hates fiercely
2. The recipient is the only person in the story with memories of a previous life
3. All countries and locations in the story are fictional
Theme: Without the other, there is no self; without the self, there is nothing to take.
