The apocalypse didn't begin with monsters. It began with a secret.Mira Calen died broken, experimented on, and separated from her family as society collapsed into ashes. Then she woke up two months before the fall.Trapped in a gilded penthouse, Mira is held by her husband, Alvin Aegis, who desperately conceals the shadow government conspiracy that has hunted her since birth.Alvin insists that everything he does is to protect her, but his protection comes at a cost: Mira remains trapped inside a gilded cage while the clock counts down to the end of the world.Determined not to repeat her past mistakes, Mira decides to work with Alvin, stockpiling resources, securing safe territory, and preparing for the end.Unbeknownst to them both, Mira isn't the only one who regressed.In the city of Rayvire, her four-year-old son, Marvin Aegis, walks with memories no child should possess.Armed with a System, an AI companion, and a fierce drive to protect his mother, the white-haired, green-eyed boy engineers an explosive escape from his captors.As mother and son move toward an inevitable reunion, powerful families, criminal syndicates, and shadowy factions move their pieces across the board.From the political corruption of the Elysian Convergence to the dark origins of the Chimera Paradox, the government isn't just hiding experiments—they are tied to the very creatures destined to destroy the world.Mira thought she was given a second chance to survive.She was wrong.She was given a chance to uncover the true origin of the collapse.The countdown has started, and evolution has only just begun.