After his younger sister becomes bedridden in a vegetative state, history prodigy Lin Shen obtains a wooden seal that lets him transmigrate through every regret in history. He thinks he can become a savior, rewriting the tragic fates of heroes like Yue Fei, Zhuge Liang, and Guan Yu.
But when he truly steps into the heavy snow at Fengbo Pavilion, the military tent at Wuzhang Plains, and the raging waves of Yashan, the System reveals its cruel truth:
“Yue Fei must die in the winter of 1142. If he lives, infighting among the war faction will bring about the Southern Song’s downfall early, costing another three hundred thousand lives.”
“Zhuge Liang’s Seven-Star Lamp must go out. If he succeeds in prolonging his life, Shu Han will exhaust its strength under his leadership and fall ten years early.”
“The hundred thousand soldiers and civilians at Yashan must leap into the sea. It is civilization’s last shred of dignity, nobler than clinging to life.”
With every transmigration, Lin Shen draws closer to the heroes. Yet every effort he makes turns him into history’s “necessary evil”: the jailer who signs the order, the messenger who delivers the medicine, the eunuch who urges them to leap.
“So the mender of history isn’t a savior after all.”
“He’s the one crouching beside a rift in time, stitching broken dignity back together, one stitch at a time, until it becomes legend.”
“Then he uses his own name as the last thread to be cut away.”
