At twenty-five, Yang Hui was just a film and TV commentary blogger with a modest following. While other people watched iconic scenes for fun, he had to edit frame by frame and check which version he was looking at. He remembered the big moments clearly, but often mixed up the details.
One late night, while editing a video, he fell straight into Hulao Pass. Lü Bu was chasing him on Red Hare, while the random shop in front of him offered just three items: an inflatable lion-dance costume, a shared bicycle, and an Immortal King’s burial shroud he couldn’t afford.
What else could Yang Hui do?
Pedal.
From then on, a thoroughly out-of-place modern man appeared in classic iconic scenes. At Hulao Pass, he rode a shared bicycle into the battle of the Three Heroes against Lü Bu. In the final court hearing, Chang Wei took him hostage. He refreshed the shop again and again, and finally escaped thanks to ten kilograms of cat litter.
Each shelf held three random items, and he could buy at most one item per page. Buy the wrong thing and the page still locked, while the refresh cost kept doubling. Yang Hui had no idea where he would end up next, or whether the scenes he remembered were from a TV drama, a game, or some other version.
He thought he could go home once he completed an iconic scene, but as soon as the results were tallied, he was thrown into the next one.
Even stranger, after he left, every world kept stories of him. The name “Yang Hui” began appearing in worlds that should never have been connected. And someone had long been hiding behind the myriad worlds, quietly watching every new iconic scene he created.
When people from different worlds finally crossed paths, they all began asking the same question:
“Why is Yang Hui in iconic scenes everywhere in the world?”
But he didn’t know that a “Scene-Harvesting King” had been watching him all along.
