[Subtitle: The End of the Dream]
Lin Ye, a web-novel editor who had reviewed tens of millions of words, died from overwork on a novel's final page.
When he woke, he was inside the Silent Village instance.
The System finished announcing the rules in thirty seconds, then shut down permanently.
While everyone else panicked, he was already crouching to feel the soil and looking up to judge the light.
The sacrificial opening, the prepared victim, the list of offerings: he'd read the framework of this instance long ago.
Others relied on combat strength. He relied on how much he'd read.
He searched for loopholes between the lines of the rules and seized the initiative in games of human nature. When veteran players tried to use him as bait, he rewrote the sacrificial list for the entire village.
But after clearing the instance, he discovered that the truth about this world was more outrageous than any novel he'd ever reviewed.
Dreams were prisons, evil gods were authors, and every player was a character in Their story.
And Lin Ye was the only one who had seen the outline.
By convention, someone should be sacrificed at this point.
But this time, he refused to play along.
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