Lin Mo, a former top-level game designer, dies suddenly from overwork. When he wakes up, he finds himself trapped in a rules-horror world with a 100% death rate. Here, the rules are absolute, and breaking them means death, until he binds the Death Ending Rewrite System.
While everyone else trembles and struggles to survive within the rules, he stands above them, using his professional eye to expose every loophole. When everyone else chooses to kill the supernatural entities to clear a stage, he seeks the truth and clears the wrongfully accused, gently helping each tormented soul find peace.
The wronged dorm supervisor who died in the dormitory at midnight, the attending physician silenced in a psychiatric hospital, the ghost bride buried alive for a century in a sinister village, the children in a silent kindergarten waiting for their mother's reply... Alongside Jiang Nian, who can foresee death, and Lao Pao, a loyal and devoted special forces soldier, he rewrites the forgotten tragedies in one deadly scenario after another.
But he soon discovers someone has walked this path before him: Shen Jinghong, the first rewriter, who was consumed by despair and ultimately became the rules' Supreme God. On the notebook Shen Jinghong left behind, there is only one line of bloodstained writing:
“When I realized that rewriting required sacrifice, I chose to give up. Don't follow in my footsteps.”
When Lin Mo faces the same choices, save his brother or his beloved? Sacrifice one person or let everyone perish together? At last, he understands that true rewriting isn't about calculating the optimal solution. It's about creating a third path.
There are no endings where death is inevitable, only hope that refuses to give up.