[Honkai: Star Rail] Jing Yuan, the High-Cloud Quintet, and the Fate Simulator

You are Jing Yuan, the longest-serving general in the history of the Luofu, and the sole survivor of the High-Cloud Quintet of old. Now, at last, your life has reached its end.

In your final moments, you receive a life simulator. According to the unreliable Masked Fool, if you run enough simulations, it can rewrite the regrets of the past.

Can a tragedy that was written in the stars really be rewritten? You don't know. You accept the simulator's link, treating it as one last rare distraction in your life.

You close your eyes, then open them.

You really have returned to your youth.

For the first simulation, you try to quell the Shuhu Rebellion while saving everyone. You stop Baiheng from obtaining the pitch-black sun, and use the experience and lessons accumulated over eight hundred years to deploy your forces. You even arrange for reinforcements from other Xianzhou in advance.

The war lasts twice as long as it did in your previous life, but the ancient Emanator of Abundance possesses power so great and unknowable that, when the final line of defense leading to the Ambrosial Arbor falls, the High Elder, driven completely mad by the dragon blood within this blood-soaked barrier, regains a final shred of reason. Using the power of the ancient sea and the oldest Vidyadhara secret arts, he perishes together with Shuhu.

You fail, and choose to start over.

For the second simulation, you make a bold attempt. During the Shuhu Rebellion, you take Baiheng's place and are torn apart by the pitch-black sun.

So this is what it feels like. It really hurts, you think. If Sister Baiheng survives, at least Master shouldn't go quite so mad, right?

You were wrong.

Not only does the High Elder refuse to accept your death, but the Sword Champion also tacitly approves his and the Artisanship Commissioner's experiments. The Moon Rage follows as expected, and there's one more culprit to add to the list.

In the end, Baiheng stands alone and places a flower before your tombstone.

Nothing has changed, except that you are no longer the next general.

You choose to start another round.

For the third simulation, you finally spend some of your simulation points on