Star Rail: Life Simulation, Ruan Mei Waits in Vain for Six Centuries

Bai Heng transmigrates into the Interastral Astronomy Society and binds himself to a Life Simulation System. In his first simulation, he is born on a planet blessed by Abundance and spends nineteen years with his childhood friend, A Ruan. She turns down his confession. At twenty-two, he pilots an escape pod into the mouth of an ancient beast to save a colleague. Using long-range remote sensing, he broadcasts a distress signal across the universe, drawing the Hunt's Reignbow to pierce the star beast with a single arrow. Bai Heng is reduced to dust.

Before the simulation ends, Bai Heng changes A Ruan's System ID to "Bai Heng's Bride." Hidden inside a plum blossom cake is a line: "Let's meet someday beneath a plum blossom's soul, under the pale moon at dusk, and whisper our love to each other." Over the next six Amber Eras, A Ruan locks herself in her laboratory, analyzing the nucleus accumbens, insular cortex, and dopamine secretion, yet she can never figure out why hearing news of him makes her tears run uncontrollably.

Six hundred years later, aboard the Herta Space Station, Ruan Mei clutches the Interastral Astronomy Society's guest list, her fingertips digging into her palm. Herta glances sideways at her. "An old flame?" Ruan Mei lowers her eyes to the name and speaks in a voice softer than snow:

"I've searched for him for six Amber Eras. If he really is the same person, I won't let him get away this time."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.