Wei Jie is a jack-of-all-trades scraping by at the bottom of the city. His motto in life is simple: stay alive, make money, and never let anyone take advantage of you. Then he picks up a piece of metal that burns to the touch, and his life is turned upside down.
It turns out that the rules of the world are built on humanity's collective subconscious. The maniacal organization known as Divine Will (DEUS) is rewriting Jin Yong's classic wuxia novels, warping reality at its foundations in a bid to control everything. The Rule Repair System bound to Wei Jie is his only way out: he must transmigrate into the altered worlds of the books and set things right within 72 hours.
His first mission: enter The Deer and the Cauldron. But the quick-witted, slippery Wei Xiaobao has been replaced by a cold, efficient modern-day assassin known as Judge, whose blade is aimed straight at the young Kangxi Emperor.
With no martial arts skills and a lowly status, Wei Jie has nothing but his street smarts and Wei Xiaobao-style underhanded tricks. In the heavily guarded Forbidden City, he must maneuver between the suspicious Hai Dafu, the clever Kangxi, and the lethal Judge, using lime powder, croton seeds, and one cunning scheme after another to turn the tables against all odds.
This is only the beginning. The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, The Legend of the Condor Heroes... one altered wuxia world after another awaits repair. Meanwhile, in the modern city, capital closes in, assassins give chase, and friends and lovers gather as a "modern Heaven and Earth Society" quietly rises.
As the line between fiction and reality blurs, Wei Jie, a small-time nobody who only wants to stay alive, is forced to shoulder the task of repairing the rules and protecting both worlds.
This is an endless battle of wits against strength, and the thrilling legend of an ordinary streetwise man becoming an unconventional hero. The rules are on the verge of collapse. Repairer, take your place!
