Introduction

My name is Ethan Miller, and my very life was a countdown.

Since childhood, a chilling experiment called "Project Chimera" tied my vitality to the genuine love and acceptance of my adoptive family, the Harrisons, and my fiancée, Olivia.

My existence hinged on their affection – a high "Resonance Score" meant I lived, a plummet meant I died.

For years, I had believed I had it all: a loving home, a woman I cherished, a perfect life.

But then Julian, their biological son, returned, spinning tales of suffering, effortlessly manipulating everyone.

My Resonance Score dipped, then plummeted, as Eleanor and Richard embraced their prodigal son, and Olivia's loyalty shattered.

They turned on me, accusing me of jealousy, ignoring my desperate pleas to expose Julian' s lies, labeling me cruel for questioning their "fragile" Julian.

The physical decline was brutal, a constant reminder of their withdrawing love, culminating in Julian's fabricated "life-threatening condition" needing my liver.

Olivia, my fiancée, the woman I loved, delivered the cruel ultimatum: save him, or our wedding was off.

As I lay on that gurney, about to be carved open for a lie, the overwhelming feeling was not just physical pain, but the crushing realization of their utter betrayal.

I was dying, not from disease, but from a profound lack of the love that sustained me, a love they had twisted into a weapon against me.

But just as the darkness claimed me on the operating table, a cold, clear voice pierced the void: "Host Ethan Miller: Deceased. New mission protocol initiating. Stand by for host reintegration."

Ethan Miller was gone. But something new, something dangerously different, was about to begin.