You're an NPC in a text-based game, a character with no presence at all.
In year one, you are born into an ordinary farming family in a border town.
In year two, you are a gifted child and begin learning to read.
In year three, you start memorizing his legendary story.
In year four, you spend your second year memorizing his legendary story.
In year five, you spend your third year memorizing his legendary story.
In year twenty, you pass the imperial examination as the third-place graduate and meet your emperor.
The emperor is wonderful, like the bright moon in the heavens and fresh snow on a mountain peak. You've long since decided to devote your life to him, so you cross the code of fate and run to his side, seeking freedom for him.
An awakened NPC, a virus of a minister gong × a code-controlled emperor shou
A short first-person story
Theme: For the freedom and fervor of the soul.
