The fate of this world has never been the natural cycle of the Heavenly Dao.
Instead, countless threads of destiny, invisible to the naked eye, lock every living being into a predetermined life.
Who is born into comfort, who is born to suffer, who can commit evil with impunity, and who will die unjustly: their endings have all been written.
Shen Yan is twenty-two. After the Threads of Fate claim his younger sister's life, he tears apart his own thread and awakens the Sequence Eye. He can see through destiny and snip evil threads, forcibly stopping tragedies from befalling the innocent.
But defying heaven and changing fate comes at an equal price.
For every inch of evil he cuts away, he takes on an inch of sin. For every person he saves from suffering, another layer of sequence corrosion accumulates.
The day his true self is consumed, he will become a mindless Sequence Husk that knows only slaughter.
The Orderkeeping Bureau brands him a criminal who has betrayed the sequence and hunts him across the city. An ancient remnant of evil uses the city's entire population as pawns, laying a deadly trap.
Others cling to life by following their fate. He alone bears the weight of cause and effect as he marches against it.
He seeks neither kingship nor the Great Dao. He only wants good and evil to each find their proper place.
