Five Years Ago
Lira Asentha was seventeen when she first saw Kael Vire.
He was shy. Quiet. Always sketching star maps in the back of class. And despite her being from the slums and him from a top-tier research family, he had offered her a smile—no judgment, no questions.
And she'd fallen.
But love and survival rarely mixed well in her world.
Kael's parents, brilliant as they were, had hidden secrets. Secrets that others were willing to kill for.
They had discovered the core code of the Heaven Breaker System—a system not made by human hands, but reverse-engineered from a celestial artifact unearthed in Antarctica.
And they had no intention of sharing it with anyone.