On his eighteenth birthday, Chen Mo receives a bizarre gift: a “coffin” containing nine different lives. The [Life Simulator] gives him nine chances to start his senior year of high school over.
With different talents loaded, he takes different paths in life: As a [Pragmatist], he meticulously calculates how to shape the perfect “unattainable dream girl,” only for the final verdict to read, “I optimized everything, including her. Final version: stable, flawless, dull.” As a [Melancholy Scholar], he writes an immortal epic in his heart but doesn't dare speak up, sighing at the end, “When I keep silent, I feel fulfilled; when I speak, I feel empty.” As a [Savior], he shields her from the storm but forges a shackle in the process, prompting the System's verdict: “Warning: The savior complex is the most sophisticated disguise for a desire to control.” He even touches the power of the gods: as the [One Who Unifies All Things], he reshapes the world, yet wonders, “I measured the width of the Milky Way, but I can't cross this short desk.”
After nine cycles of reincarnation, having reached the pinnacle of power only to fall into the void, he finally understands: “What shines on me was never moonlight, but the faint glow of a firefly!”
The final choice arrives: become a god, or remain human? He sheds all pretenses and realizes that what he seeks is “to see the person right in front of me, and love the ordinary light.” He abandons grand narratives, returns to his original intentions in the most ordinary way, fulfills the promise that “all the power in the world is worth less than one moment of a racing heart,” and completes the clumsy first kiss that was nine lifetimes overdue.
Yet it isn't over. As he prepares to embrace a reality without any special talents, faint blue letters appear in the corner of the mirror:
[Hello, Chen Mo, currently unnamed]
[Your talent: Life Simulator]
[Simulation duration: 120 years]
