Apocalyptic horror × traditional opera heritage × cursed fate × dual male leads
Main characters: Chen Mo and Shen Xiao
“When the world becomes a stage, staying alive is the most absurd performance of all.”
After the Curtain Calamity, the rules collapsed and mutations ran rampant. Opera professor Chen Mo transmigrates into the apocalypse wearing a mysterious opera robe, forced to bear the most dangerous “fated-to-be-an-actor” destiny. A curse like a knife drives him into an endless spiral of drama. A quiet life means death; only by singing, reciting, acting, and fighting his way through a storm of blood can he struggle to survive.
In an abandoned theater, he makes a desperate entrance and pins down demons. At a bloody banquet in a warehouse, his performance of The Beheading of Chen Shimei enrages a hundred souls. A ruined opera house conceals secrets that could end the world; on an otherworldly stage, a deadly game pits the loyal against the treacherous. Only when he takes control, turning human lives into lyrics and ruins into a stage, does he realize that this frenzied apocalypse is actually a “civilization theater” in a higher dimension!
[Heritage ablaze with blood] Water sleeves turn to steel blades to slay demons, a martial actor's blade carves open a path to survival, and a leading lady's final song suppresses inner demons.
[An ensemble's tragic ballad] A mad painted-face performer burns himself to uphold his way, a clown's laughter and tears turn the world around, and a warrior woman with a spear heralds a new era.
[A battle against fate] He joins hands with the martial actor he loves to cut down the “spectators” behind the scenes and overturn this man-eating stage!
The author writes well, but the introduction and setting are a bit like a drama god