【Game Invasion + Adoptive Sisters + Romance + Everyday Life + Ensemble Cast】
On the night the servers for The Era of Divine Ruins shut down, Lu Chen, who had quit the game seven years ago, is about to close his failing data-recovery shop when his twenty-seven-year-old adoptive sister, Gu Wanqing, appears at the door wearing an ice-blue crown that doesn't belong in the real world.
She says, “You died once in another world.”
And there's more trouble: his six other adoptive sisters, whom he met after their parents remarried and who are all now adults with no blood relation to him, are on their way too. One carries a flower that cries, another a star map with no real-world coordinates, and the youngest clutches a broken blade and tells him, “Big Brother, I just killed you in the game.”
Lu Chen was once the game's top city lord, “Boundless.” During the seven years he was gone, the game world lived on for fifty years. Each of his seven adoptive sisters lived another life there and became the ruler of one of seven royal cities. And the other Lu Chen he left behind on the throne has the same face, more memories, and is more like a hero who never ran away.
As streets, armies, and living people from the game begin to overrun reality, Lu Chen can only reactivate “Version Rewind” and search the anomalies for clues to the past that's been altered. But every person he saves costs him a memory of his own.
He has to stop the world from being replaced, while also answering for the old debts and feelings his seven adoptive sisters have brought back. More importantly, he has to admit that they aren't seven keys waiting for him to use them. They're seven adults with the right to choose which parts of their lives to keep.
But when his former self on the throne finally opens his eyes, only one of the two Lu Chens can hold the number-zero authorization. Which one is the one who gets to stay?
