After a devastating storm destroyed his home, Aiden Archer collapsed on the roadside with his life slipping away. A girl’s kindness pulled him back—she handed him her bank card and half of her jade pendant, and asked him to meet her again ten years later. Holding onto that promise, Aiden endured the battlefield for a decade and climbed all the way to the role of Lord Protector, commanding a million elite troops and half the world’s economic lifelines. Yet the moment he returned to D City, false charges sent him to prison, his name was ruined, and his fiancée walked away. Worse still, the shadow behind his fall appears to be back.