When your lover becomes a card in the game, is winning the game a redemption or a deeper trap?
Three months after his girlfriend Shen Xin disappeared mysteriously, genius programmer Lin Mo received an encrypted message: If he wants to see her, he must win the "Real Mode" of the "Battle of the Golden Shovel".
He logged into the game, only to find that the familiar chessboard had turned into an abyss - Shen Xin's consciousness was cut into pieces and turned into the "Painful Widow", a limited hero in the game. Every step she takes unlocks her contradictory memories: the girlfriend who complained about his addiction to games was working on his behalf to become a master late at night; the scholar who questioned his research secretly eliminated him from a mysterious organization's "consciousness harvesting plan".
Across the chessboard, the opponent who calls himself "Observer 07" sneers and reveals the rules: use Shen Xin's memory fragments to build a lineup. If she wins, the fragments of her consciousness will be taken away; if she loses, she will be reduced to game data forever.
But when Lin Mo was about to win, he discovered that the final chess game itself was a scam - what he logged into was not the game server, but the consciousness cage prepared for him by the observer. The truth behind Shen Xin's disappearance is even crueler: she is not a victim, but in order to protect him, she voluntarily became an experimental subject of the "Chosen Project" to learn how to fight against the high-dimensional system that uses human consciousness as a card.
At the last second when he unplugged the network cable and physically disconnected from the Internet, Lin Mo received a real invitation: to join a war without a trophy. Across the chessboard, Shen Xin, wearing a hospital gown, smiled at him, and behind him were the consciousness projections of hundreds of top players in the world.
"Joyous
