In the New World, Lin Cang City, 2014.
When he was nine, Qiao Zihao witnessed the death of a loved one with his own eyes.
"Take your family and leave Lin Cang City. Don't investigate why."
However, he chose not to honor the deceased's final wish.
When he was eighteen, just as everything was beginning to make sense, he truly began to fall into danger.
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Those who grow up in fear and are driven toward a path they never wanted to take;
those who numb themselves with fantasies amid their pain and stumble onward;
those who are pushed into an invisible web in the unknown, yet struggle to escape its strands;
those who lose their past in confusion and do their best to uncover the dark truth;
those who are battered and bruised in the darkness, yet carry on the Golden Will and raise their voices;
those who take another's place as a pawn on the chessboard and carve a path with their blood...
In the end, they will all converge on the same thread in this city, sharing the aftershocks that come from the shadows.
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Friendship, love, family;
trust and betrayal, hope and despair, moving forward and falling back;
plots and schemes, layer upon layer of strategy, untangling clues, probing and testing...
"The truth you sacrifice everything to uncover isn't your ticket into the game. It's your bargaining chip."
"Because the moment you set out to seek the truth, you were already in the game."
"May you be able to put up a fight at the final card table... assuming you live that long."
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The dusky yellow arrow has already hit the ground, while the bowstring of the mighty crossbow is still vibrating.
A high-stakes contest is quietly unfolding...
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[All characters and plotlines are original except for the Stand setting. The story as a whole leans toward serious mind games.]
It's really good. The intellectual battles are top-notch, very much in the style of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, just lacking a bit of JoJo-style metaphors (doge~). It's a high-quality JoJo story on Tomato's website. (Also, I wanted to ask, are there really no characters or plot points from the original work? Will there be absolutely no characters from the original work?)
Is the author really not updating anymore...? What a pity, it's such a good book. I'll write a review tomorrow when I have time. I feel I should pay you for reading such a great article, but since I don't have the money, I'll compensate you with my writing. 🤭
By the way, readers can post their own avatar designs here; I'll select some to include in the novel 😘