In 2049 AD, the "Red Learning Fire" that swept the world thirty years ago burned all the original documents of "A Dream of Red Mansions", leaving only a incomplete adaptation in the world, and no one knows the ending of the original version. The mysterious organization "Zhi Yanzhai" suddenly hijacked all electronic screens around the world and forced to start the immersive death live broadcast "The End of the Red Mansion".
One "Chosen One" from each of 233 countries and regions was forcibly thrown into the 1:1 replica of the Grand View Garden of the Qing Dynasty. Death in the game is the liquefaction of reality and the brain. The only condition for passing the game is to find the last page of the original "Dream of Red Mansions". The winner will get the right to modify reality once. Every click, barrage and reward from the audience will be converted into "grievance points", making NPCs more cruel and the rules more deadly.
Lin Mo, a restorer of ancient Chinese books, was accidentally selected. The red birthmark on his wrist was exactly the same as the legendary psychic gem. As the rules were revealed layer by layer, he was horrified to discover: Grand View Garden is not a virtual world, but an independent cage that seals ancient evil objects; "A Dream of Red Mansions" is not a novel, but a sacrificial contract that lasts for five hundred years; even the organizer "Zhiyanzhai" is only a survivor of the previous round of sacrifices. Everyone is a sacrifice, and the person who finds the true copy will become the next "author" to be sealed forever.
