Soledad Amihan Mercado has lived for over two centuries, caught between hunger and humanity. Once a simple woman from the 19th century, her life ended (and began again) the night her lover, Saturnina, was devoured by an Aswang---a shapeshifting, flesh-eating creature from Filipino folklore. But instead of killing her, the Aswang turned her into one. Since then, Sol has wandered through decades trying not to give in to her own monstrous appetite, choosing instead to live quietly among humans.
In the modern world, she finds herself at Ylagan Corp., crunching numbers by day and fighting hunger by night. Her mentor, Sam Dizon, is everything Sol isn't---calm, diligent, ordinary. But Sam's scent stirs something dangerous in Sol, a hunger she can't ignore. What Sol doesn't know is that Sam carries her own ghosts.
Bound by grief and drawn to each other, Sam and Sol must confront what they truly are-to the world, to each other, and to themselves.
And when the heart remembers what the blood desires...how long can either of them pretend to be human?
The MC died from illness, his body weak and broken.
Before his final breath, he made one last wish -
> "If I could be born again... I want a healthy body and a life lived to the fullest."
The heavens heard him.
Given a second chance, he opens his eyes in a new world...
Only to realize he has transmigrated into a novel as a cannon fodder destined for tragedy.
Will he break free from fate and live as he pleases?
Or will the cruel ending of a cannon fodder claim him once again?