The Outsider

In the script woven by fate, who would willingly remain a puppet on a string forever? Amid the turbulent currents of countless worldlines, who is secretly rewriting the course of the ending?

When the appearance of a seventeen-year-old is forcibly locked in place, and the regrets of a twenty-five-year-old arrive through the cracks in time:

The Wheel of Time in the right eye, traces among the ruins of the royal capital, the ancient divine shadow of a lone island willow, a pact that crosses worlds;

Love given to the wrong person, a heart that runs away, the old pain of a shattered home, tenderness that came too late

God: Is doing this worth it?

Yang: ...Then what does it mean for something to truly matter? Putting someone who has lost all seven emotions and six desires on this wretched divine throne?

God: And you, what is it you stand by...?

Yang: I once promised the world that I would never deceive others, but I never promised not to deceive myself.

God: Have you ever considered that changing fate is, in the end, nothing more than an illusion?

Yang: A sinner imprisoned for years in fate's birdcage has finally gotten a pen that can change what has already been decided. Whether what I change is true fate or an empty illusion, as long as I can leave this predetermined cage, I'll accept whatever comes.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.