When this game, with the survival of civilization as its wager, begins, billions of players struggle between life and death, searching for the faintest chance of victory. They praise heroes and curse failures, unaware that every move they make is being watched by an entity.
“I have seen our civilization utterly destroyed thirteen thousand times.”
“But this time, I think I see a different ending.”
When the cyclical game that would decide the fate of civilization begins, Gu Yan discovers his power: rewinding after death. At the same time, another person awakens her own ability: anchoring memories.
He can start over without limit, searching for the best solution across countless corpses.
She can remember everything, every cycle’s pain etched into her bones.
In a zombie-ridden wasteland, she watches him die trying to save everyone, only to face a complete stranger who doesn’t know her at all in the next timeline.
In a sinister manor, she watches him carefully weave lies and become the prophet everyone trusts, while she is the only one who remembers the previous version of his lie.
In a world of dragons and magic, he becomes a dragon-slaying hero, while she is the only one who remembers him being devoured by dragonfire after countless failures.
He is a lonely chess player moving between timelines.
She is the sole witness, trapped among countless versions of him.
He carries the corpses of countless failed timelines as he presses on.
She carries every memory of that person, with no one she can confide in.
“Every time you walk toward me with a smile, I know that this is the best ‘first meeting’ between us, one you earned only after dying countless times.”
