When the world on the page turns against its creator, and readers' predictions become the fuse for death...
Web novelist Chen Mo discovers that his novel Echoes of Stardust has developed a bizarre life of its own. It vehemently rejects all plot predictions, and any story speculation that earns widespread praise is twisted into a bloody disaster the very next day. In a furious battle of wills with his readers, Chen Mo angrily comments beneath a prediction with a million likes: "Congratulations, you've triggered the hidden route where the protagonist dies."
Overnight, everything turns upside down. The comment section is flooded with tens of thousands of desperate messages bearing the same ID, #SP-001#: "Author, we're the real characters in your story. Save us, get us out of here, "
At the same time, the novel's files begin to corrupt on their own, and the boundary between reality and fiction grows ever more indistinct. Chen Mo is forced onto a desperate path of exploration. Before the world he created, now beyond his control, can devour reality entirely, he must crack the code of the "base parameters" and understand the truth of the "narrative singularity."
Yet when he finally wields the "primordial authority" to rewrite reality and defeats the devourer of worlds, he discovers he has not been set free. He glimpses the cold "higher permissions" above the narrative layers, along with countless nascent worlds struggling to be born in the darkness. From the "author" of a single world, he becomes a "Dreamkeeper" wandering among the dreams of countless nascent worlds, shining starlight through shackles under the watchful eye of the strict Guidebook.
This is an endless war that begins with creation and ends with freedom.
