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Gu Ye, a scrap worker at the lowest level in the Black Iron District, has had no identity, no genetic profile, and no possibility of awakening for eighteen years. The only value of his life is to rummage through industrial waste every day for scrap metal that can be exchanged for one meal. Until that day, a dark red ore of unknown origin awakened in his chest. It's called "Pain-Eating Seed" - a living star marrow from the abyss. It gives Gu Ye a cruel and crazy ability: the more pain he endures, the stronger the power of transformation. The bite of the three-headed dog, the heavy punch of the four-armed giant ape, the head-on collision of concrete fragments, every injury that was close to death would be devoured by the hungry monster in his body, turning into a violent force that crushed the enemy. But the price is also marked secretly. Each transformation irreversibly strips away his emotions, making him colder and quieter during the battle, like a knife that gradually loses its temperature but becomes sharper. With a temporary pass, Gu Ye entered Beili Military Academy, the top academy for awakeners in the Chinese War Zone. Here, he met the genius healer Su Wanqing. She discovered a secret that had been buried for twelve years in his body data: his energy signature completely coincided with Gu Cheng, the missing core experimental subject of the "Star Bridge" project. And the last words Gu Cheng left were-- "Don't trust anyone." When the ancient will behind the cracks in the abyss slowly opens its eyes, and when everyone around him approaches with unspeakable purposes, Gu Ye must make a choice in this game with himself as a pawn: to become a vessel enslaved by power, or to shatter fate.