The Polar Night's Day

[World Background]

This is a world where steel and concrete are buried beneath fantastical splendor. An invasion by filth from beyond the world has plunged the entire world into a nightmare. The will of a god, on the verge of collapse, descended as the Twelve Pillars of Law, laws made manifest to anchor the world, and then fell silent.

Since then, the sun and moon have overlapped, the stars have vanished, and living beings have been able to comprehend the power of the laws from the Pillars of Law, driving away the filth from a world tottering on the brink in the storm.

Blazing heavenly fire burns fiercely in the sky, while the ice of the cold night sweeps across the world beneath the earth.

[Stream-of-consciousness blurb of the protagonists' first encounter]

The first time Lu Xiao saw him, he was like a flame falling from the sky. A golden sword swept away the wasteland, while blazing fire surged like a dragon beneath the scorching sun. He leaned against the church's circular spire and saved several lives with casual ease, cold and immaculate.

A mole beneath the corner of his right eye flickered in the blazing firelight, austere yet strangely alluring.

But the moment Lu Xiao saw him, he felt a malicious desire to make him cry.

He was mysterious, transcendent, and held an extraordinary yet awkward position in this strange and fantastical world. Lu Xiao never knew why he kept his distance from ordinary people, nor did he care. He simply wanted to drag this godlike man down to earth and make him reveal a different side, which would surely be the most breathtaking sight in all the world.

[More serious blurb, not fully thought out yet]

As someone who transmigrated, Lu Xiao is the sort of person with no attachments and nothing to lose. But after transmigrating, he doesn't get the standard protagonist treatment. Heaven has given all the protagonist's advantages to someone else.

As for Lu Xiao, he is attacked by magical beasts as soon as he arrives in this strange world, left battered and covered in blood. That man descends from the sky and saves everyone, but when he sees Lu Xiao, he frowns and takes several steps back, even covering his nose as if he can't stand the smell of blood on him.

Lu Xiao wants to make the lofty savior cry.

The man suppresses his disgust, takes Lu Xiao back to the Tribunal, strips off his clothes, and pins him into cold water. Lu Xiao curses at him, but all he gets in response is an even more uncompromising grip.

After learning about this world, Lu Xiao goes to the Celestial Star Pillar in the city square to try to comprehend the laws, hoping to gain the power to protect himself. The process goes quite smoothly, but what he comprehends is a Law of Beauty that looks utterly useless.

Lu Xiao: "?" Am I supposed to scare people to death with my face?

In the end, the man simply says with a cold expression, "It's fitting for a furnace body to comprehend the Law of Beauty."

Lu Xiao gives him a sarcastic grin. Before he can unleash a torrent of curses, Huazhu turns coldly and leaves him with a single remark: "You'd better be careful not to let your blood be exposed to powerful people or nonhuman creatures. I think you should know what the term furnace body means."

"The more powerful someone is, the more deeply they're affected."

Lu Xiao only sneers. "Oh? So you're affected too, then?"

He moves close to Huazhu and tries out the Law of Beauty he's just comprehended, only to receive an even colder glance.

Theme: Seek a chance at survival at the end of the road, and hold fast to the light in the darkness