Year 547 of the Ascension Era.
Humans gained the ability to transform into beasts through genetic enhancement, and a social order was established with "blood purity" and "body strength" as the only value criteria. S-class blood people who can perfectly transform into beasts rule the world, while "zero elements" who cannot transform into beasts are regarded as a stain on civilization. Surname is a totem, bloodline is identity, strength is destiny - these are the rules engraved in everyone's bones.
But the foundation of this order is a lie.
Five hundred years ago, nobles secretly put the gene expression inhibitor "emberin" into the drinking water of civilians. It wears away the naturally born high-level bloodlines among the civilian population, disguising their madness and death as "the natural collapse of inferior bloodlines." After a few generations, everyone forgot the truth—and the commoners themselves began to believe that they were inherently inferior to the nobles.
A former Star Tower researcher discovered the secret. He was hunted for twenty years. Deep in the dump, he told a fifteen-year-old girl the truth.
That girl is twenty-two years old now. She returned to the royal family.
Her name is Su Wan.
The triple illness left her with only two or three hours of waking time each day. Coagulation disorders mean that even anger can lead to internal bleeding. In a palace that values strength, everyone looks at her with pity, ridicule, or curiosity - like a patient who has wandered onto the wrong set.
But she had a secret they didn't know: She might not have gotten sick. The hermit has purified water. She can choose to restore some of her bloodline power. She chose to continue drinking the poisonous wine.
"If I'm going to speak for civilians, I have to be a civilian first."
Purpose: She is the only person who has a true connection with the three major races, nobles and commoners, perpetrators and victims. Her very existence is the quietest questioning of this order.