Lin Wan thought she was just a web novelist staying up late to meet a deadline, until, in her 104th cycle, she watched the red-robed, silver-haired regent plunge into a bottomless abyss for her.
She thought that was the ending.
She had no idea it was only the beginning.
When she wakes from a coma that lasted three years, the real world has already become unrecognizable.
Xie Wei, who should have died, is now her so-called “attending physician.”
The childhood friend who should have loved her is hiding a cold scalpel.
And the supporting female character she wrote to die is smiling at her in a nurse's uniform.
“Lin Wan, don't be afraid.”
“This time, I'll be the one to keep you prisoner.”
Reality is fake, memories are fake, and even love is a lie woven by the System to harvest energy.
To find the real Xie Wei, Lin Wan is forced to struggle in the rift between reality and virtuality. She pulls out her tubes, blows up the hospital, and even summons the mad regent back from the torrent of data with her own hands.
But when the lofty “Page-Turner” tries to castrate his soul with a fluffy romance plot, and the cold “Proofreader” tries to crush and recycle their story for good, Xie Wei chooses the most extreme path.
He burns himself to ashes.
On the other side of the story, he carves out a corner for her where no plot exists.
But when Lin Wan survives alone in that void, she discovers that the ashes have not gone cold.
They transform in hunger, gestate in darkness, and eventually give rise within her to a “new god” who belongs neither to Xie Wei nor to Lin Wan...
“Xie Wei, are you my salvation or my curse?”
