In the middle of an interstellar war, Yun Tianmin finds himself on the front line. Sick with cancer and determined to settle accounts with life, he was frozen and sent into space. There, the Trisolaran fleet picks him up.
After years of brutal torture, Yun gives in and begins cooperating with aliens. He helps subjugate humanity. With a healthy cloned body, Yun leads the life of a traitor and an exile. Before his death, he receives one more reprieve—another rebirth. Some Consciousness pulls him into a fight against the essence that threatens our Universe… But Yun refuses to be a pawn again and builds his own plans to save the future of mankind…