The night the city looked back at me, my life ended—and something else began.I was an ordinary college student, lost in routines and quiet dreams, until a mark surfaced on my skin like a memory I never lived. That mark was not a curse alone—it was a summons. Beneath the city’s concrete and lights sleeps an ancient pact, breathing through forgotten streets, watching those who carry its blood.The city changed the moment it recognized me. Shadows lingered longer. Silence felt heavier. Unseen beings began to move, bound by rules older than time, hunting what my blood awakened. I learned too late that my existence was written long before I was born—and escape was never part of the design.Bound to a man shaped by the same pact, I walk a thin line between protection and destruction. He is not meant to love, yet he stays. Not meant to choose, yet he hesitates. In his eyes, I see both my survival and my ending. The closer we become, the more the city tightens its hold, reminding us that love has consequences it never forgives.In a world where the past still breathes and the city remembers every promise made in blood, survival demands sacrifice. To live, I must uncover the truth behind my bloodline—before the city decides to reclaim what was never truly mine.