Writing Scripts in a World of Strange Tales

In 2050, it has been twenty-five years since the Strange Theater descended.

The Awakened believe they are fighting monsters, but in truth, they are the Theater's "fuel for corruption."

The stronger their talents, the deeper the corruption. Once it reaches its limit, they are assimilated.

Beneath the lie of a "heroic narrative," the world is quietly sliding toward its end.

Lu Yan awakens the talent [Unfinished Draft], which lets him see through every written destiny.

He discovers:

His best friend's sacrifice is a "tragic scene" written into the script;

His younger sister's power to purify is the "final spark" everyone is fighting to claim;

And the global financial markets are actually an invisible slaughterhouse where the Theater harvests emotions.

He gathers his companions: a guardian burdened by guilt, a probability dice afraid of its own power, a data genius who puts reason above all else, a pure soul connected to all things...

From the financial ruins of the Mirror Sea, to the eternal bonfire of the Northern Frontier, and then to the ultimate fortress in the deep sea.

The monsters aren't all we have to fight. We must also face the "author" writing this world, and the cold protocol that turns human emotions into data.

If civilization is destined to be written as a tragedy,

then we will take up our pens

and rewrite the history of all humanity.