Heart's Prey

All beings are bait, love and hate are food. For millennia, humans have been reduced to emotional livestock, aliens have become hunters, and the Void Lord has set up an eternal cage, feeding on human love and hate, manipulating the two races to fight for generations, with no one able to escape the fateful game. Yang Pei is the emotional key destined for sacrifice in the prophecy, raised from birth, with family as script and love as bait, surrounded by deception and betrayal. Shen Ji is a modified being with no choice, burdened with hunting orders, approaching her to weave lies while using his remnant soul as a shield, enduring for ten years to protect her against the tide. Together with their companions, they use souls as blades and lives to break the game, burning countless dead souls and sacrificing their own souls to strike the Void Core, bringing light and a peaceful world. But all victories are illusions. The desperate resistance is bait, the sincere love is nourishment, and the long-awaited dawn is from start to finish a carefully planned harvest by the Void. Sacrifice is meaningless, resistance is futile. Memory is wiped clean, the cycle begins anew, and everyone repeats the same doomed path to death. She is trapped in eternal sacrifice, he in eternal devotion, all trapped in an endless cycle. Long night without day, cage unbroken, all obsessions and deep affections are ultimately just a fine emotional meal in the mouth of the feeder.