The Cruise, the Prairie, and Their Rose

Dual female leads, infinite-world suspense and mystery, with a side couple, a touch of horror, and lots of sci-fi elements later on. Plenty of twists and foreshadowing, so make sure it's your kind of story before diving in!! Gentle, cool, scheming older sister Jiang Jinyue & emotionally intense, obsessive, devoted younger sister Jiang Ranxing. A little angst, two strong leads, told from the younger sister's perspective. She and I share the same face, yet we've become reflections of each other. When a cruise ship's horn tears through the night sky, and the grassland wind carries the stench of decay, I finally understand: this infinite-world game is nothing more than a judgment the gods have passed upon us. My sister says, “Stay alive,” so when I cut open an NPC's chest, I always make sure my knife avoids the curve of their heart. She says, “Don't be afraid,” so I tread over roses the color of blood and gently tuck my bloodstained hair behind my ear. But when a corpse identical to me appears on the deck, the System chimes with a laugh: “Prove that you're the one who's alive.” My sister's butterfly knife presses against my throat, while I aim my gun at her temple. How ridiculous. The only one who can kill a pair of twins is always the other twin. Volume One excerpt: “As the cruise ship sank, all the NPCs sang ‘Happy Birthday.’ The younger sister remembered that today was supposed to be the anniversary of their ‘being burned to a crisp in a car accident.’” Volume Two excerpt: “A crow brings your childhood back / As the grassland burns, your sister picks up a charred photograph from the ashes. It shows that in the real world, only the younger sister was lying in the wreckage of the car accident.” Volume Three and Four excerpt: “You are my unsent suicide note / I turned my neural pathways into your firewall. / Withered into your likeness”