Notes on the Heart: The Inner World

Transmigration across the Heavens | Urban Anthology | Psychological Parable | Reserved Male Lead | Emotional Vignettes

Reader notice: Please skip the unremovable opening chapters and begin the main story with Chapter One.

Not a System novel. It leans toward traditional fantasy and focuses on worldbuilding and cultivation.

Li Gui fell from the world of immortal cultivation and became a locksmith’s apprentice in a modern city.

The only unusual thing about him is a book titled Record of Ten Thousand Hearts Returning to the Void.

In this world without spiritual energy, inner demons have not disappeared. They have taken the form of KPI-devouring beasts, vines of toxic competition, and black holes of anxiety… lurking in people’s hearts and building more intricate prisons.

His ability is not to slay demons when he sees them, but to record their joys and sorrows.

This is not a traditional story of leveling up and fighting monsters, but a field report on urban inner demons.

Every self-contained story is a cross-section.

Between the Myriad Worlds and the steel forest, we try to ask:

As the world outside grows endlessly crowded, how can we make room for that vast emptiness within?

If you, too, hope to find writing beyond the tide of “thrills,” writing that reflects reality and leaves an echo;

if you, too, have felt loneliness roaring deafeningly in the midst of a crowd,

then welcome to this crowded yet empty inner world.

This is a quiet literary experiment.

Dedicated to everyone who still listens to the tides within beneath the neon lights.