Peng Liang was originally a marginal man from Wuhan with no stable job, suffering from obesity, slow movement, and terrible living habits. His early life was filled with failure, humiliation, and being overlooked. He didn't truly crave love; he craved to make everyone who had belittled him fear him.
He was selected by a private research institution, not for his excellence, but for his "abnormal physical tolerance." The lab injected him with high-concentration compounds and conducted multi-stage enhancement experiments. The goal was to create a humanoid strategic weapon capable of flight, high-speed movement, immense strength, steel-like flesh, heat vision, super-hearing, and near-immortal regenerative powers.
The experiment succeeded, but the personality control failed completely.
After his transformation, Peng Liang's appearance did not become handsome or divine; instead, it became more deformed and oppressive. He retains his obese physique, but beneath the fat lies inhuman muscle density; his skin is pale and greasy, his eye sockets are deep-set, and his pupils glow with a scorching red light when he is agitated. When he flies, he doesn't look like a hero; he looks like a massive piece of rotting flesh being dragged into the sky by the sun.
Peng Liang's personality is dark, narrow-minded, vengeful, and characterized by a mix of extreme narcissism and inferiority. He cannot tolerate any slight, rejection, or mockery. Once he possessed absolute power, he developed no sense of responsibility—only a desire for retribution. He habitually rationalizes his cruelty by saying, "I am no longer something that requires human judgment."
He has no real ideals for ruling society, nor does he have grand political goals. He craves something lower and more dangerous: gaze, worship, and submission. He forces others to call him "The New Sun," yet deep down, he knows he is still that same loathed and avoided Peng Liang. Thus, his violence is often humiliating in nature; he doesn't just kill his enemies—he wants to destroy their dignity.
The laboratory destruction event occurred during the seventh stage of psychological constraint testing. Researchers played footage of Peng Liang's past life, attempting to stimulate his compliance. After thirteen seconds of silence, Peng Liang unleashed his heat vision for the first time, severing the observation room, blast doors, and underground power system. Then, he tore the main experimental chamber apart with his bare hands, destroying the entire facility from within. No complete survival records remain from the site; only one line from the surveillance footage was salvaged:
"You see me now, don't you?"
After escaping the lab, Peng Liang entered human society. He did not immediately begin to rule the world publicly, but instead began observing the fear reactions of ordinary people. He appears on high-rise buildings at night, in subway stations, on the rooftops of urban villages, and above busy commercial streets—like a monster waiting to be worshipped. He particularly loathes the young, the healthy, the decent, and the confident, as these individuals represent the life he never possessed.