Rain whispered against the shattered glass roof of the abandoned metro dome.
Each drop tapping like a countdown — to something neither of them expected.
Lâm Khả Vũ stood in silence, his gaze locked on An Thư.
Their battle had ended. No victor, no defeat.
Just silence… and a wound in his side still warm with blood.
"You still won't answer me, will you?" he asked quietly.
"Some truths," An Thư whispered, "will break you more than the lies ever did."
And then — a voice.
From the shadows behind them.
"Neither of you gets to look back anymore."
A voice from the dead
Lâm Khả Vũ spun around.
At the far end of the cracked staircase, someone emerged —
Silver-white hair, black coat trailing behind, and one eye of piercing arctic blue.
The other — a glass eye engraved with a rose.
"Tống Dực?"
An Thư's voice cracked.
"That's… impossible. You're supposed to be dead."
Past isn't past
Tống Dực.
Once the prodigy of strategy, Khả Vũ's adoptive brother.
He vanished a decade ago during a massacre everyone assumed took his life.
But here he was. Alive. Sharper. Colder.
"You've grown, Khả Vũ. Smarter. Stronger."
"But not cruel enough."
He stepped forward.
An Thư instinctively backed away — her leg shaking from a reopened wound.
Khả Vũ moved between them, shielding her.
"Why are you here?"
"For you."
"For the debt you two still owe me."
The real twist begins
From inside his coat, Tống Dực pulled out a tiny blinking chip — red light pulsing like a heartbeat.
"You recognize this?"
"The master key to the Organization's Class-A weapons network," he smiled.
"And guess who holds the last access code?"
The color drained from Khả Vũ's face.
That chip controlled everything — sleeper agents, cyber weaponry, black market arsenals.
If Tống Dực had it…
"You were my brother," Khả Vũ said bitterly.
"And she was my weakness," Tống Dực replied, eyes flicking to An Thư.
"Now? You're both liabilities."
A storm building outside.
Three hearts standing beneath the ruined dome.
A chip that could end the world.
And a decision… that might destroy what's left of them.
No more time to hesitate.
No more trust.
Only blood, truth, and fire.