The Wailing Ruins

If your love, hatred, wild joy, and despair could all be extracted and given a fixed price, which would you sell?

The Ruins of Sorrow: When Your Heartbeat Becomes a Luxury

Welcome to "Ruin City." Here, your memories are luxuries, and your emotions are hard currency.

I'm Lu Jianye, an "emotion hunter." My job is to enter other people's minds and hunt down forgotten fears, stolen joy, and love put up for sale. Wealthy society ladies spend fortunes just to taste a mouthful of "the thrill of first love," while parents in the slums quietly sell their last scrap of "hope" just to buy food for their children tomorrow.

Until I met her: Su Weiyang, the last woman in this rotting city with a "complete soul." Every faction covets her, because her emotions can't be extracted. Instead, she can absorb the sorrow of the entire city.

When my mentor activates the "Purification Plan," when my best friend becomes the "king of the black market," and when all eight million people in the city are about to have their emotions drained, turned into walking husks...

I discover that I'm the key to everything. Three years ago, I sold my most precious memories with my own hands, and the truth is enough to make all of Ruin City perish with me.

They call me the savior.

But I choose to become the god of these ruins...

[High-intensity warning] This isn't like any story you know. Turn to the first page, and your heartbeat will no longer belong to you.