On an overtime-filled night, advertising designer Yan Lin receives a strange commission: the poster must feature “breathing blood vessels.” The moment he finishes the design, amniotic fluid warm as a womb seeps out of the screen, dragging him into a blood-red gallery.
The portraits hanging here warp according to the level of mental corruption. Ruan Yetong, dressed in a crimson qipao, claims to be carrying his “memory embryo.” Su Jiusheng, with a countdown carved into her spine, warns him that every painting is a cognitive trap set by an Observer. Meanwhile, Zero, an AI administrator whose cries sound like his younger sister, is turning the players’ childhood traumas into deadly dungeons.
When Yan Lin finds the exit, his reflection suddenly smiles. “Congratulations. This is your 300th loop.” Every portrait of Ruan Yetong in the gallery has tears running from its eyes, tears with the same salinity as his ex-wife’s.
Are you sure you want to remember that you’re the one who designed the game?