17-Year-old An Chen is an anomaly on campus - an Alpha with low pheromones. Under the scar on the back of his neck lies dormant anomalies that cannot even be detected by medical instruments. When Bai Qinghuan, disguised as an Omega health consultant, intervenes in her life with mint-flavored pheromones, the numbered coffee cans in the convenience store freezer, the laboratory building lights that automatically turn on at midnight, and the sudden growth of white tea vines on rainy nights all hint at a truth that has been carefully buried for twenty years.
"You have the key in your blood."
As the countdown to the college entrance examination ticked, An Chen discovered that his memory was being tampered with by some force. Those flashbacks of the white laboratory scenes, the encrypted embryo videos on his father's computer, and the disappearing and appearing passwords on Bai Qinghuan's work badge all point to the same question: When social laws are based on lies, who is the real monster?
Purpose: "The lie of blood will eventually be pierced by the truth, and the true bond is born from the will of resistance and symbiosis."
"The sharpest ice is willing to melt for the most stubborn vines"