The world was collapsing, and no one knew who to trust.
Lily stood on the edge of the city’s ruins, staring at the shattered skyline. The once-proud towers of the Vanguard Corporation now lay in smoldering ruins—symbols of a power that had promised to protect humanity but had instead enslaved it. She had watched it all unravel, piece by piece, and now, with the weight of a broken world on her shoulders, she was left wondering if the cost had been too high.
For years, Vanguard’s control over resources had been absolute. They didn’t just dictate who lived and who died—they engineered the very fabric of society, forcing people to fight for scraps while they hoarded the power to decide who got to thrive. And Lily, once a cog in the machine, had been one of the few to see the cracks beneath the polished surface. She had joined the resistance with a single belief: the system had to be torn down. But in the chaos of revolution, where betrayal and deception lurked around every corner, Lily was beginning to question everything she had fought for.