The Infinite Abyss

Silly version of the blurb:

Before Su Mo developed emotional detachment, she was a respectable person. After she became ill, everything went wrong as if she'd committed some unforgivable offense. Not only was she forcibly dragged into a shoddily made escape-game scenario in the middle of the night, but a woman whose destiny clashed with hers showed up out of nowhere and nearly made her die beneath her skirt.

This woman throws her beauty around, ruthlessly suppresses Su Mo in the game, and goes out of her way to make life difficult for her outside it. Yet the culprit puts on an act of total innocence. And to think she's a traditional folk music teacher, highly paid by the academy. She's a shameless excuse for a teacher, with no integrity whatsoever.

What Su Mo finds even more ridiculous is that her emotional detachment noticeably improves whenever she thinks about or faces this woman.

So after being sick for so long, she finally finds the right cure, and lets herself go without realizing it.

At first:

Su Mo: "It must be some kind of cursed fate... Or maybe I did too many terrible things in a past life..."

In the middle:

Su Mo: "Poor me, she's got me wrapped around her little finger."

Later:

Su Mo: "Go on, toy with me. Hurry up."

Qin Zichu: "?"

Serious version of the blurb:

"A tower falls in the mountain town; in an instant, delusion is born. The hexagram's meaning is governed by fate; fortune and misfortune follow like shadows. A golden-haired girl from the western city offers herself in hopes of winning Heaven's favor. A place where bones are ground to dust and scattered to the winds returns under the name of dusk!" From the apocalyptic bonus story, "Meet You in Bai Yujing," in Quick Transmigration: Making Something Out of Nothing.

Compared to the countless people living in comfort on level ground, those who dwell in the abyss yearn even more fiercely for the summit. They have no way back. The darkness of the abyss makes the light at the peak shine all the brighter. And because they see the summit every time they look up, they mistake it for something close enough to touch.

So many people fall along the way, but a tiny few climb over their corpses and reach the top, smugly proclaiming themselves gods.

After calling themselves gods for long enough, they come to believe they really are gods.

They don't realize that they have long since become aberrations, no longer gods, and no longer able to return to being human.

Please note:

1. This story can be read on its own, without the first installment in the Time-Space Bureau series, Quick Transmigration: Making Something Out of Nothing.

2. This is not a typical Infinite Flow story. It wears the trappings of Infinite Flow while telling a story about an ensemble cast, balancing everyday life with danger.

3. It draws on real-world cultures, such as the Eastern Book of Changes, the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, and Western tarot, while also featuring a mountain of invented material, such as rules-based urban legends and eerie nursery rhymes.

4. The game scenarios grow progressively more difficult.

5. The writing balances humor and seriousness; the story gives equal weight to plot and romance.

6. The setting is based on an alternate history, split evenly between original creations and allusions to historical sources. If you're looking for an academic work on history, this isn't for you.

7. Two mature, powerful women; both are each other's first and only; strong leads; switch; one-on-one romance; guaranteed happy ending, so don't worry.

8. The romance takes a little while to warm up, but not too long. It's a sweet story, but not mindlessly sweet. Please be patient and don't rush the relationship.

P.S. This story has an anti-piracy system. The current protection ratio is 100%, and it will rise as more chapters are released. Readers who haven't purchased enough chapters will have to wait 72 hours. Since this isn't a traditional Infinite Flow story, I don't recommend skipping chapters, or you may suddenly find yourself unable to follow what's going on.

Read the author's other work:

Quick Transmigration: Making Something Out of Nothing: a nontraditional quick transmigration story.

The author's Sina Weibo: Singer Ge Bie Xu

Theme: Put people first, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the gods.