Ivy was an anomaly that "shouldn't exist"—in Marmore City, where everyone was made of marble, she was the only living person with flesh and blood. She'd hidden since childhood in the city's lowest scrap district, surviving by wearing a thick fake stone shell to pass as low-grade marble. Until one day, by accident, she touched the city's coldest, whitest billionaire Flint Carrara—the moment his lips touched hers, the stone began to melt, turning back into warm flesh. Flint was terrified. His lips were bleeding, feeling temperature, in pain. But he found he couldn't stop. Every time he got close to Ivy, his body uncontrollably "softened" like melting ice—societal death in Marmore City. But the city's supreme ruler, Pure Stone Council chair Eleanor Obsidian, discovered Ivy's existence. To her, Ivy wasn't a miracle but a plague—a "soft virus" that could collapse the entire marble civilization. A city-wide manhunt was launched. Flint had to choose between "keeping his identity as a stone billionaire" and "protecting this girl who made him feel alive." And Ivy would discover that her flesh-and-blood body wasn't random—she was the genetic legacy of the last human scientist before the Great Hardening, and her body held the code to reverse the whole world.
