Dragon Abyss: When the Pear Blossoms Fall

Chen Mo thought he was just the most ordinary high school slacker in town, until the day the sky turned deep purple and a group of men in black shattered the peace of Old Zhou's courtyard. “Your bloodline has awakened. Come with us.” Forced to enter Dragon Pivot Academy, he discovered that beneath this world's peaceful facade lurked a terrifying abyss of monsters known as the Abyssal Beasts. Here, power was no gift. It was a curse. The purer the dragon blood, the shorter the lifespan. Those at the very top of the pyramid, the “Pureblood Dragonline,” wielded godlike power, yet none lived past the age of twenty. And Chen Mo was diagnosed with the highest, surely fatal rank from the start. To stay alive, and to protect the old man waiting for him beneath the pear tree, he had to fight his way through this damn fate before his twentieth birthday.