(Seven stars sit facing one another around a round table, each holding a stake. Beneath the earth, seven steles bear the same inscription, making it impossible to tell which is real and which is false.)
There are only codenames in this book, not a single personal name. The entire book is written in the form of a television series, not a novel. It combines the novel and TV series formats.
"Seven-Star Gambit"
Seven lives? Seven seats, locked in an eternal game inside a deliberation room.
The reserves keep dwindling, and the red line is about to shatter the threshold.
Three backup vaults are on the brink of failure. An unknown fourth vault lies buried deep beneath the room.
The seven keep one another in check, guarding every word as each secretly plots their own moves.
A mechanism is triggered, scrambling and rearranging the seats as everyone waits for access rights to be reassigned.
But when the fog clears, the nameplates remain unchanged.
The reset just now was only a test.
At last, the passage leading underground opens.
Seven identical seats wait silently below.
Seven nameplates, each bearing the same character.
Are they seven people, or seven separate incarnations of the same person?
