[Genshin Impact] The Garden of Forking Paths

A strange labyrinth has appeared outside Mondstadt, like a mirage that never stays in one place. The well-read Miss Lisa Minci has been tasked with investigating it. When the robin uncovers the old dreams hidden within the labyrinth, the exit has vanished without a trace. Only by traveling through different worlds can she find the one eternal truth.

Original female character x Lisa, ship name: [Time and Lisa] [A Brief History of Time]

"Time writes the world's commandments on papyrus. The sun leaves the temple, and the waters drown the flowers. Papyrus steeped in time cannot withstand the swollen spring waters, and becomes a handful of yellow sand on the banks of the Nile."

I'm afraid of being betrayed by miHoYo (though maybe it already has happened), so I'll use the various alternate-universe formats commonly found in fanfiction. I expect six chapters. There is a thread running through the whole story, but you can ignore it.

Metaphysics + stream of consciousness + self-indulgence, with plenty of unnecessary symbolic metaphors. It may be obscure and difficult to understand (let's be confident and drop the "may").

There are many homages. If you can't accept them, you can call them plagiarism; I don't mind. The Garden of Forking Paths, The Library of Babel, The Divine Comedy, Elantris, The Decameron, and many others are all victims. Since every chapter I write will have plenty of victims, I won't list them all here. Updates are slow and the quality is poor; I cobble things together and refuse to repent.

If you can accept all that, then please open this story, written in the blazing fire of love. Here you will find a desperate illiterate, yearning to find the most fitting way to express her love, just as a plant yearns for sunlight.

I'll write another one when Sumeru comes out, then an alternate-timeline story after all seven nations are out.

Theme: Seize opportunities and embrace challenges.