Think heroes are destined to die young? I'll make sure they live to a ripe old age.
When Ning Wan bound herself to the Hero Guardian System, she saw how countless people would meet their ends:
Fire Captain Shen Lie would die at just twenty-eight, sacrificing himself to save civilians in a chemical plant explosion and leaving his five-year-old daughter to grow up alone.
Drug enforcement officer Jiang Yu would be betrayed by a mole just as his three-year undercover operation was about to wrap up. He would die at the hands of drug dealers, and all the evidence would be destroyed.
Doctor Su Jin would fight on the front lines of an epidemic, contract the virus from exhaustion, and die young, bringing years of medical research to naught.
There were also scientists, teachers, soldiers, criminal investigators... These heroes who shoulder the burden for us all would keep falling unexpectedly in the line of duty, leaving the world with regrets.
The System had just one mission: transmigrate through different worlds, take on different identities, protect these great people from deadly traps, and break their fated paths to death, so they would not have to pay with their lives to stand by their beliefs.
She had no miraculous golden finger, only the System's warnings and a heart that refused to give up.
Faced with an approaching inferno, she gathered data again and again to prevent the risk of fire.
Faced with vicious drug dealers, she passed along information time and again to expose the mole in the drug enforcement team.
Faced with a dedicated scientist, she guarded the scientist's research data again and again.
The world praised the greatness of heroes, but all she wanted was to keep them safe.
In this life, may everyone who shoulders the burden for others have someone to stop the flames from consuming them, someone by their side as they walk on knife's edge, someone to urge them to stop before they burn themselves out, and someone waiting to welcome them home safely.
Seven worlds, seven acts of protection, seven stories of heartbreak transformed into, "Thank goodness you were there."
