Cheng Lvtong came from a scholarly family. He was rather thin, with handsome features, and a pair of well-proportioned glasses gave him an especially bookish air. He stood out even in a crowd.
Before entering Heavenly Sea, his twenty-nine years of life had been smooth sailing. Just half a year ago, he and the wife he had loved for years had welcomed a daughter.
His family was well-off and his life stable. If not for what came later, it was easy to imagine just how happy his life would have been if it had continued like that.
But everything changed while he was out buying formula for his daughter.
Cheng Lvtong had entered the Fourth Branch two months ago, and the circumstances of his arrival in Heavenly Sea had been rather bizarre.
Among the newcomers from two months ago, he could practically be called one of the last batch of employees recruited by Heavenly Sea.
Moreover, unlike the others, he had not been transported directly into the hotel. He had lost his way and wandered into the Fourth Branch on his own.
As for why he had lost his way while buying formula, it was because he had become entangled in one of the Fourth Branch's missions...
Cheng Lvtong was an unusually unlucky man, but one could also call him lucky in an unusual way.
An ordinary passerby like him had been dragged into a Fourth Branch mission, yet had somehow survived. Naturally, he then followed the surviving employees back to the hotel.
Dazed and confused, he had blundered into becoming an ordinary employee of the Fourth Branch.
Thinking back on it, Xue Tingtao would occasionally tease him:
"Lvtong, it wasn't the Fourth Branch that chose you. You chose the Fourth Branch."
As for his individual strength, there was no