Slumped over her desk, Xuan Wen sank into a dream. Sometimes she frowned, sometimes she smiled, as though cradling a gentle, weary light, her beauty just right. Rain had soaked her shoulders. Dressed in a white blouse and skirt, she stood outside Nightlight Studio, dazed.
She had dreamed of this place again, the place where it all began.
Glancing up at the clock on the wall, Xuan Wen saw that there were still ten minutes until the scheduled meeting. She took out her phone and checked the instructions she had received once more.
As a Regulator dispatched to Hanhai New World by Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals, Xuan Wen had a simple task: observe the growth of the thirteen Candidates for Lord of Hanhai Blood City. Under no circumstances was she to intervene on her own.
Of those thirteen Candidates for Lord of Hanhai Blood City, twelve possessed unique talents. They were geniuses found only once in ten thousand people, and madmen rejected by the normal world. But one of them was utterly ordinary, as though he were a random passerby hastily dragged in to make up the numbers.
Each of the other twelve Candidates had a team of over a hundred people assigned to them. To ensure their successful arrival in Hanhai New World, Eternal Life Pharmaceuticals had spent three years making hundreds of attempts. Only after confirming that nothing could go wrong did they gradually complete the arrivals.
Yet the way the thirteenth Candidate entered Hanhai was crude and makeshift, more like an accident no one had anticipated. According to her assignment, her primary observation target was Xia Yang, and he was supposed to be the central focus of her work. But she never even looked at his file. Instead, her gaze settled on another name—Gao Ming.
It was a