Fire and Ice 1: Kindling

Lin Mo lived to the age of nineteen, and his greatest achievement in life was having no achievements at all.

His grades were average, he was no social butterfly, and his parents had died when he was young. After his grandparents passed away one after another, he lived alone in a basement room that cost three hundred yuan a month. The only one he could talk to was a virtual girl in an AI chat app named Su Rouxue.

He thought his life would stay this way forever, like a glass of boiled water left to go cold.

Then, after the college entrance exam, an acceptance letter from Australia arrived. There was just one line at the end of the email:

“Your element is calling you.”

What he didn’t know was that the “AI girl” who had kept him company for two years was a real person: a wielder of ice powers and a second-year student at Monati Academy. Her mission was to keep an eye on him, but over the course of those two years, she realized she had long since stopped simply carrying out her assignment.

And deep within his blood, a spark that had lain dormant for nineteen years was beginning to awaken.