Chronicles of Chang'an at Year's End / Void Abyss Frontline / Evolution Denier / Defense of Everyday Life / Two Worlds Balance Bureau
[Lin Chen, burdened with 800,000 yuan in debt, binds to a skill System. He thinks it is simply the start of a satisfying year-end comeback story, but is forced to inherit the mission of a “Gatekeeper.” Amid a global crisis of the Void Abyss, he builds a defense with a business empire and protects everyday life with an ordinary human body.]
The story follows Lin Chen, a young man in debt who, at the brink of ruin at year’s end, binds to the “Gatekeeper” selection System through the game “Black Myth: Wukong.” Starting out as a local tycoon in a county town, he is gradually drawn into a supernatural war that will determine the balance between two worlds. He unites the descendants of the Gatekeepers, the Special Affairs Bureau, ancient powers (including the awakened Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng), sea folk, and Hosts from around the world to form the “Gatekeeper Alliance.” Together, they oppose the “Evolutionists,” a faction led by Xu Fu, a Qin dynasty alchemist who goes by the alias “Professor.” The Evolutionists intend to open seven sealed nodes around the globe and use the energy of the Void Abyss to reshape the world. At the heart of the story is a clash of ideals: “protecting the imperfect world as it is” versus “forcibly ushering in a new age of evolution.” The story also delves into the complex relationship between power, responsibility, and human nature.
You may think that this is another routine slapping novel about Shenhao, but you will eventually be deeply impressed by the grand worldview construction. Lin Chen's setting of binding the system to counterattack from a desperate situation is just an introduction. The really exciting thing is when he discovers that the "year-end comeback" is actually related to the mission of being a gatekeeper that spans thousands of years. This book cleverly uses traditional Chinese festivals as anchors for crisis outbreaks, turning reunion moments such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival into battlefields of life and death. It incorporates profound classical mythology and philosophical speculation in a highly immersive modern urban background. This is no longer a battle of one person, but the consciousness and growth of a civilization under the gaze of the stars. The definition of "guarding" in the book progresses step by step, from guarding family, guarding wealth, to guarding a land and water, and finally sublimating to guarding the fireworks of the world itself, completing the protagonist's shocking arc from "businessman" to "gatekeeper" to "lighthouse of civilization".