Ling Chen was once the most ordinary person in the crowd: a city office worker in his early twenties, squeezed into the rush-hour subway crowd from nine to five, buried under endless reports at his desk, and escaping the tedium of reality at night through anime, novels, and movies. One rainy night, after working late, he found a palm-sized black Rubik's Cube in a corner of the old-item recycling station downstairs. Its edges were traced with matte silver lines, and its six faces bore no numbers, only flowing patterns of dark gold. It felt warm to the touch and trembled faintly, as if it were alive. Thinking it was a worthless toy, he casually turned it once. The cube suddenly erupted in blinding light and swept him into boundless chaos. When he came to, the cube had fused into his palm, and a cold mechanical voice rang in his mind: “Universal Item Cube bound successfully. Multiverse Transmigration System activated.” His ordinary life was shattered completely. Clutching this key to fate, Ling Chen embarked on a journey through countless worlds of fantasy, moving from passive survival to active exploration. Amid the worlds woven from light and shadow, he sought a meaning beyond the ordinary, while secretly cherishing the hope that “perhaps, in some world, I might meet my true self.”
