Lend Me Three Pounds of the Universe

A story about an RPG character awakening and crawling out of the game world to find his wife.

"Phantom Star" is a wildly popular neural-link game across the stars.

Seventeen-year-old Jiang Xin enters the game world for the first time and goes head-to-head with the game's legendary God of War, only to get pinned to the ground and utterly wrecked.

Bang! Three seconds later, the game is over.

The whole world knows Jiang Xin got shot in the head by the God of War, Kang Yuzhan.

The greatest humiliation of his life. The greatest humiliation of his life.

Jiang Xin: I'm going to skin him alive!

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Four years later, the game world restarts.

In the new storyline, God of War Kang wants to date Jiang Xin.

But do you think deleting your memories means we're even? Jiang Xin thinks. We haven't settled the score for that headshot yet. Who wants to date you?

...Besides, even if we dated, you wouldn't remember me.

I'm not falling for that again. Not ever.

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Another four years pass, and the game world resets again. The two rivals meet by chance.

Kang Yuzhan is a game character. He won't remember me, Jiang Xin thinks.

Draw your sword, old enemy.

But Kang Yuzhan is invincible. This time, he has his gun pressed against Jiang Xin's forehead, yet suddenly his expression shifts, and he magnanimously lets Jiang Xin go.

Uh???

Wasn't this supposed to be a fight to the death?

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Things start getting weird.

If Kang hears even the tiniest bit of news about Jiang Xin, his eyes light up and he rushes over to listen. If he doesn't see Jiang Xin for a day, he's distracted and miserable all day, lost in thought for ages.

Rumors run wild in the game world.

"The God of War has a crush on that archer from Dongshan!"

"He's completely lovesick."

"Love at first sight."

The world has restarted twice. His memories have been wiped clean, so there's no way he could remember me, Jiang Xin thinks, sitting on pins and needles. What is wrong with this character?

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Well, would you look at that. This RPG character has awakened.

The God of War knows that the world he lives in isn't real.

And the key to breaking out of this game world lies with a man named Jiang Xin.

Kang Yuzhan is the gong, but the story alternates between both characters' perspectives.

About the title:

The human brain weighs about 1.6 kilograms on average, or roughly three pounds.

This three-pound brain is packed with hundreds of millions of neurons. In their sheer number, immense scale, and mysterious vastness, they are no less than a whole new, infinite universe constructed within those few pounds.

This story is probably about some rather peculiar things related to neuroscience.

Theme: Nothing can stop me from yearning for freedom