Cause and Effect Is a Beast

"Cause and Effect are Beasts" In this world, cause and effect is a beast. Not metaphorically - they live, they get hungry, they hunt, they feed on the "meaning" in the minds of sentient beings. Every choice you make, every cause and effect you establish, every love and hate you experience, you feed them. You think you are thinking, but in fact you are cattle being put out to pasture. Gu Yan is an exception. He was born "tasteless" and the beasts wouldn't eat him because he didn't care about anything. Until a young Karma beast bit him - the first Karma beast that could bite something from him. What was bitten away? He doesn't know. But from then on, he began to feel the hunger and fear of the beast. He is the first human being to be able to empathize with animals. Qin Buyi, the strongest beast tamer, is having his personality taken over by his contracted beast. A crazy poet monk tries to tame the beast with poetry, and his research points to a forbidden truth. The bone master who only tamed dead beasts watched silently. His philosophy was: I would rather have the power of death than the shackles of life. And the cub has been following in the dark. It remembers the only "human scent" it tasted. When the desolate tide engulfs the world and all the forces are counterattacking, Gu Yan must ask: If even meaning is the dung of beasts, what is the purpose of living? The answer was revealed thirty-two years later. What the cub bit away was his unexpressed cry when his mother died in childbirth on the day he was born. It hid this cry for a lifetime. Then gave it back to him. Death with it.