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In a world where the strength of one’s meridians determines whether a person has the right to breathe, Li Jian Nan was born a powerless piece of trash. Cast aside, ridiculed, and secretly prepared as a test subject for a forbidden experiment by his own father, the ruthless King Wuji. But the king made one fatal mistake. That frail body was no longer empty. It had been taken over by Jian Wu Chen, a cold-blooded mafia clan leader from the future, a man accustomed to living amid betrayal, murder, and power struggles. When the king’s forbidden experiment failed and unleashed the Meridian Corruption zombie plague, transforming Tingzhou into a sealed hell, Wu Chen was forced to activate the mysterious System within his body. But power in this world never comes for free. Every time he forcibly opens his sealed meridians, the System demands a cruel price: the remainder of his lifespan. Hunted by mutated monsters lurking in the darkness and pursued by the kingdom’s elite forces, who want his body as a specimen, Wu Chen has no intention of becoming a hero. He only wants to survive. And if the world forces him to become a monster just to keep breathing, then he will tear the entire kingdom down until nothing remains but ash.

In the Solvane Empire, a sworn oath is absolute. Break your word, and the Oathfire kills you — fast, agonizing, and without exception. It is the law beneath every law: soldiers swear to hold their lines, nobles swear to keep the peace, and no one has ever lived to regret breaking a vow. Wren Ashbourne just broke one — in front of forty witnesses, on a collapsing battlefield. He should be dead. He isn't. He tells only one person: General Corvin Drayce, the man who raised him from the age of six, the closest thing to a father he's ever had. Drayce tells him to keep it secret. Trust me. Let me handle it. Wren trusts him completely. Until a scholar of the Order shows him a three-hundred-year-old record — three other men who once survived what should have killed them. All three dead within the year. Every case sealed by the same officer's signature: General C. Drayce. Now Wren has to uncover a forbidden truth buried in his own childhood — a power he never asked for, a mentor who may have built him into something else entirely, and an empire whose oldest law might be the biggest lie of all. He was raised to be a weapon. He's about to find out for whom.