(The Myriad Worlds + Rules Horror Game + urban setting + dark themes + System + wild imagination + decisive and ruthless protagonist + no romance, open to readers of all genders)
Welcome to the only bookstore at the end of the abyss.
We don’t sell books here. We make deals, and the price is always a “cost.”
I’m Lu Siheng, a bookstore owner. On the surface, it’s a bookstore; in reality, it’s a pawnshop.
Other people rely on transmigrating or getting a System. I was just sitting at home when two contracts showed up on my doorstep:
One came from the cold, most powerful Order System, which wanted me to be its observer.
The other came from the greedy Abyss Pawnshop, which wanted me to be its pawnbroker.
I smiled, stacked the two contracts together, and signed my name.
From then on, every mission issued by the System became a bargaining chip in my dealings with the pawnshop;
every price collected by the pawnshop became leverage in my negotiations with the System.
I arbitraged, hedged, and rebalanced between them, using my soul as a furnace to forge the rules anew.
[Not a system, not an anti-system, but a "kidnapping system"] When used bookstore owner Lu Siheng was selected by both the Abyss Pawn Shop and the Order System at the same time, he did not choose a camp - he became the balance between the two. While others were struggling to survive in the system tasks, he opened a pawnshop branch in the multidimensional world, used system points to pay the pawnshop price, and then used the pawnshop resources to gain system rewards. The pawn shop needs desire, the system needs balance, and he is feeding his own power. From the ruled to the scale-bearer, this is a calm and terrifying road to killing gods. There is no hot-blooded counterattack, only precise calculations - when good and evil are quantifiable bargaining chips, whoever makes the rules is God. Suitable for readers: Picky readers who are tired of black and white settings, like games of wits, and expect the protagonist to use their brains instead of fists to solve the problem.
I really love it😍This is not simply traveling through the heavens, but using a strict set of "pawnshop economics" and systematic observation rules to reconstruct the multiverse. Every world is like a mirror, showing how desire distorts rules and reality. When you see a knowledgeable person pawning his "curiosity" just to perfect a thesis he has written for 60 years, but losing his knowledge forever and even giving his life, the feeling of "he who hears the truth in the morning will die in the evening" is more real and shocking than any horror story.
Recommended to you who are tired of seeing "either good or evil" protagonists: The most amazing thing about this book is the protagonist's stance - he is neither good nor evil, just a pure researcher's mentality. Watching him use the patience of an ancient book restorer to dismantle the Abyss Pawnshop and Order System into observable experimental samples, you will suddenly understand: a real high-end player never chooses sides, he only sets the rules of the game.