"You think time travel is a new life, but it's actually the hundredth time you've walked into this city."
The first day after Murong Ci woke up, he saw a line of words written by himself in his diary:
"Don't go looking for the gold cabinet in the bell tower. This is the fourth time you've died."
Ten years ago, a fire broke out in the Ashes Archives, killing twelve of its caretakers.
Ten years later, Murong Ci discovered that the names of the deceased on those files had all become his own.
He can restart with his memories after each death, but he can never escape from this prison called "Cinder City".
Until he opened a yellowed roster in the deepest part of the archives, with four words written in blood:
"Reincarnation is punishment.
