Waves of steam and machinery sweep across the continent. Steel behemoths roar as they trample ancient lands, and the clatter of differential engine gears echoes above every city. Yet in this seemingly rational age, mysterious shadows have never faded. Potion recipes circulate on the black market, fortune-tellers whisper in dark alleys, sealed artifacts lie dormant in underground vaults belonging to powerful factions, and the legend of the Hanged Man still haunts the midnight hours.
Lin Chen, an ordinary graduate student in history, touches a forbidden relic during an archaeological dig and transmigrates to this strange continent where mysteries intertwine. He finds himself inhabiting the body of a worthless young master, abandoned by his family and on the verge of a violent death. Thirty years of loneliness and failure in his previous life have taught him one thing: in this world, mercy is the greatest sin.
The awakened “Fool” Sequence grants him the ability to see through the mists of fate. But every glimpse comes at the cost of his sanity. He must scrape by amid the clashing factions, seek a balance between the occult and science, and teeter back and forth on the brink between becoming a god and descending into madness.
This is not a story about a hero saving the world. It is about how a madman survives in a mad world and becomes a god in the eyes of others.
