During a livestream of a video game, Jiang Yan’s phone suddenly glows with golden light.
[Minor Causality Mission: Campus Route] Cause: A transfer student in senior year is being ostracized. Current status: Will fall from a building at dawn in three days. Potential consequences: The homeroom teacher will leave their job due to depression, the student’s mother will suffer a sudden brain hemorrhage, and one of the bullies will hit someone while driving drunk ten years later. Causality Points: +20. Failure penalty: -50. Current balance: 10.
“System? You’re serious?” Clutching his streaming microphone, he rushes into the classroom. Using the newly redeemed ability “Read People’s Hearts,” he sees through the bully’s troubled family background. Yet on the very night they successfully mediate the conflict, the System displays a line of tiny text: “Residual aura of a Saint of Causality detected...”
Even stranger, the school nurse, Su Heng, who always brings him warm water, has half of a jade pendant engraved with the character “Saint” peeking from her sleeve.
Meanwhile, on the dark web, an account called “Against Causality” posts: “Time to wrap up the game. The new piece looks promising.”
When Jiang Yan crushes his first “Causality Prediction Card,” he finally understands: this isn’t a mission at all.
He’s been recruited to weave the crumbling web of causality anew on behalf of the Saint who vanished twenty years ago!
