[Semi-infinite flow + post-apocalypse + behind-the-scenes mastermind + gender-bender + plot-driven]
In this world, staying awake is the only way to survive.
A year ago, the “Dreamfall” turned everyone's dreams into meat grinders. The moment you fall asleep, you're dragged into a dream instance. Every wound suffered inside appears on your real body, and anyone who dies in a dream will never wake again.
To stay alive, people use needles, electric shocks, and drugs to forcibly keep themselves awake. One by one, pedestrians stumble along the streets with sunken eyes and dazed expressions, teetering on the brink of collapse.
Ye Luowei is one of them.
She can't afford medicine, so she has no choice but to pawn her eyeballs, kidneys, heart... One by one, the parts of her body are priced and put up for sale.
Then one day, a deck of cards spills out in front of her, and a silver-haired woman calling herself “Xisailin” emerges from the cards.
She tells Ye Luowei: This deck can copy other people's supernatural abilities. It is the power to turn your fate around.
She promises Ye Luowei: As long as you enter the dream instances, you'll earn points that can change everything.
She persuades Ye Luowei: This time, you won't be the prey. You might become the hunter.
Ye Luowei chooses to believe her. At last, exhausted, she closes her eyes and falls into a long-missed dream.
But she doesn't know that Xisailin has never belonged to the deck. She is a nightmare, an ancient entity dwelling within the infected. And Ye Luowei's body is the perfect vessel she has been waiting for.
Every step of the way, the guidance pushes her deeper into the abyss.
Good night, Ye Luowei.
Will you wake up this time?
My viewing suggestion is: you need to read the first four chapters carefully to get a feel for the situation, otherwise you might be a little confused. The evil god has started a new book, so I have to support Ciallo! ~(∠·ω< )⌒☆
It's great! Although the female lead's abilities are a bit outrageous, they're considered normal, even somewhat weak, in this kind of rule-based dungeon world. The author sets up the world by introducing dungeons from the very beginning, and the initial dungeon is set up to be too difficult; if your abilities and intelligence aren't up to par, you'll die instantly.
So the author... Has been resurrected? And for so long...
I've read over ten chapters and it's quite good, with no major flaws. I stayed up all night to finish reading it, but unfortunately the author isn't updating anymore.
Excellent, excellent! A truly superb article.
Where exactly is the transformation? Is the other female lead Heatherine? [What?]