In a world teeming with monsters where might makes right, even though Gu Jing can make countless monsters tremble and grovel at her feet, she can't hide her fragile nature. She's always barely clinging to life.
So she decides to get herself a bodyguard.
The young man she steals from the deepest part of the prison is ruthless and taciturn, wild yet loyal, and his stunningly beautiful face is an added bonus. Gu Jing is very pleased with him.
She uses him to throw her weight around, conning and cheating her way across the land as she searches for clues to the ultimate weapon that can control this world.
But then she discovers that the only person she has ever tried to assassinate in her life is him.
To save her own skin, she makes a run for it on a dark and stormy night, paying no heed to the eyes that have watched her for so long, their admiration gradually turning into an obsessive longing for someone he can never have.
They say Xu Yuan, the human commander, possesses the ultimate weapon that can control this world.
As the whole world searches for the commander, who vanished after an assassination attempt, he is trapped in a lightless prison, surrounded by monsters and fighting to survive.
Until one day, a young woman quietly opens his cell.
She has walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, with countless monsters trembling at her feet.
Yet she gently wipes the blood from his cheek and smiles at him, his expression cold and unreadable.
"From now on, I am your everything."
He thinks he will spend the rest of his life living for her.
Much later, he learns she's only a liar, and that nothing she said was true.
But it doesn't matter. This is a world under his control, and no one will be allowed to leave his side.
This is the story of a man at the pinnacle of power who, after a brief bout of amnesia, is deceived body and soul by the con artist who tried to kill him.
Theme: We may not be able to control what others think, but we can work to change ourselves.
