Three-Day Reincarnation

Synopsis of Three Days After Death

San Bei wakes up again. His body is half-transparent, and he can see the patterns beneath the sheets through his palm. No one thinks anything is wrong.

Xijing is a city where emotions are forbidden. Every three days, the System resets everyone’s memories. Indifference is a virtue, and helping others is a violation. Only San Bei secretly keeps a diary, because he can’t understand why his body briefly becomes solid again whenever he helps someone.

Then, one night, black ink rain falls from the sky. A girl named Qing He hands him a candy wrapper. She calls him big brother and says she’s been waiting for him for a long time. She says she’s a program, yet sheds tears of light.

The milk tea shop owner blinks three times whenever he lies. The transparent people in the Order Management Bureau have mechanical lights flickering inside them. When Yue Jian digs a portrait out of an ancient tomb and discovers that the person in it looks exactly like San Bei, he realizes he is far more than just an “anomaly.”

A core that should never have existed was implanted inside him, and the golden tattoo on his chest turns into a new number with every full moon. In the brief moment at the end of each cycle, when the world stands still, a transparent figure always watches him. Its outline looks just like his own.

Someone plans to publicly reveal the most vulnerable, most unsuccessful moments from all of San Bei’s cycles. When that happens, the emotions of the entire city will resonate, and the System will briefly go offline.

Just a few seconds.

Will those seconds be enough to find the truth? Why does the System need pain to function? Who is that transparent figure?

It has rained more times than he can count. This time, he will make the rain stop.