Lin Wu, an old-house renovation designer who regularly stayed up all night working on proposals, passed out face-down on her blueprints after working overtime for days on end. When she woke, she had fallen into a brutal world of bizarre rules.
This world's instances randomly selected people to enter. Ordinary people would be shown in a global livestream, watching the challengers in real time as the chat flooded by and life and death played out before everyone's eyes. Everyone assumed the rules of each instance were fate. Break one, and the horrors inside would devour you.
Lin Wu discovered that she had transmigrated to this world and gained the ability to see hints???!
The space affected everyone else, filling them with awe and making them flee or cling desperately to every deadly rule. But in Lin Wu's eyes, those terrifying taboos weren't curses at all. They were just physical damage to the buildings: black spots on the walls were mold, cracks in the floors came from foundation settlement, and the noises in the middle of the night were just waterlogged beams resonating. The instance's rules were nothing but false shackles that kept the space dilapidated and fostered resentment.
Others entered instances, carefully clinging to life.
She entered with a complete set of renovation tools, ready to fix the place up.
Scrape off the mold, patch the cracks, seal the holes in the roof. As she repaired the physical damage to the space piece by piece, the rules the instance relied on to kill people began to crumble, and the terrifying horrors vanished with them.
During her first instance, a rain-soaked house on the verge of collapse, viewers across the internet watched as the girl used nothing but a putty knife to literally renovate the instance into ruin, clearing it with unprecedented ease.
Deep in the void, the being that ruled this shattered space watched her in silence.
Countless challengers knelt in terror before the rules. She alone wielded the repair tools of the mortal world, slowly mending this illusory realm, battered and broken beyond recognition.
