[After he tricked a love-struck fool, he got turned into an obsessive lover himself.]
Extreme weather runs rampant: cold snaps that freeze people into human-shaped popsicles, heat waves hot enough to cook people, and world-destroying storms and thunderstorms all arrive at random, again and again...
This isn't a postwar apocalypse. It's a new world belonging to humanity.
Xie Li was born with a defective body and burdened with a complicated past. He drags around his frail body, but his situation isn't quite hellish from the start.
To keep things fair, he has a golden finger that no other New Human possesses:
1. The System he calls his father has a lifetime's worth of knowledge from the world's top mechanical engineer and can guide him through anything.
2. The mechanical android his father assigned to his side is a veteran of the Third War and serves as his bodyguard, protecting him at every turn.
3. After undergoing bodily modifications, his unusual body happens to attract the leader of the "Beasts" from another era, who becomes completely infatuated with him.
Thanks to these so-called golden fingers, he gets everything he could want with ease. The one thing he didn't handle well was breaking things off with the "Beast" he once considered a friend.
Feeling empty and regretful, he wants to salvage a relationship that has gone completely cold, but instead the two drift farther and farther apart.
Until his friend, who had gone far away, forgets the painful lessons of the past and returns to his gentle, passionate self.
He even mistakes a joke made after their falling-out for a confession that they once loved each other, and wants to pick up where they left off.
If all he can keep is a dazzling, beautiful shell, he'd rather not have a life that comes easily.
Xie Li decides to fall in love first, before his short life comes to an end.
A shou with no scruples, an unpredictable moral compass, and a strong sense of doom & a gong who's capricious and foul-tempered but good at putting on an act, with a huge health bar
Please note:
1. Both leads are virgins. The shou is intersex, and the gong has a human-shaped, uh, drug (alpha) constitution. Includes pregnancy and childbirth; the child is expected to appear after the twentieth chapter.
2. The author's other novel, "First My Best Friend Was My Older Brother, Then My Rival, and Finally My Wife" (gong's perspective), is the prequel to this story. It takes place before this novel and is more carefree (and immature). Check it out if you're interested. This story is from the shou's perspective and takes place later.
Meeting is fate.
To every reader who has taken the time to explore this little world, I love you~
Theme: People must not resign themselves to fate and become mere objects.
