After Wen Zhiyan died, a "quick travel system" was bound to him.
The system said that she was the chosen redeemer and had to complete tasks in ten worlds in order to get a chance to be reborn.
Wen Zhiyan believed it.
She performed tasks obediently, accumulated points obediently, and acted out the script given to her by the system in each world - until the third world, she discovered that the villain who was supposed to be the "mission target" looked at her in a wrong way.
That's not the way an NPC looks at a player.
It was a person who was in a cage like her, looking at another prisoner through the bars.
His name is Shen Jiming.
The first thing he said was: "Are you also a person who died once?"
It took her three worlds to confirm: he was not a plot character arranged by the system, not another player, not an AI, and not an illusion. Like her, he is a "dead person" locked into this game.
But the system says they should be the only two.
As the mission progressed, Wen Zhiyan began to discover things that should not exist in each world: repeatedly reset world lines, NPCs with memories of past lives, old data fragments that occasionally flashed through the system library—and a list of names.
She knew everyone on that list.
Not because they met in reincarnation. It's because these people are still alive and well in the real world.
They were her targets.
Every "mission" given to her by the system essentially asks her to destroy - or kill - the people she knows in the real world.
And every time she completes a task, her own body lying somewhere in the real world becomes one step closer to complete brain death.
This is not a plan of salvation.
This is a sophisticated cage fueled by the consciousness of two people. The person who designed the cage was neither she nor Shen Jiming - he was the third "living person" still living in the real world, remotely controlling this cruel experiment that lasted seventeen reincarnations.
Only this time, Wen Zhiyan woke up first.
And Shen Jiming, in his memories that were erased and reconstructed seventeen times, never once chose to betray her.
-The only problem is.
None of them knew that the experimental goal of the seventeenth reincarnation was for Wen Zhiyan to kill Shen Jiming with his own hands.
Concept: When memory can be tampered with, choice is the only freedom