A Documentary Director's Second Career in Space

Blurb:

Song Xie was a documentary director who worked purely for love of the craft. After dying suddenly by accident, he became bound to the History Recording System. His mission was to travel through different eras and document true history. Once he had earned enough points, he could redeem a chance to come back to life.

After diligently working for the System for several centuries, Song Xie retired and returned to his own interstellar era.

In this interstellar age, entertainment reigned supreme, and much historical material had long since been lost during the long migrations.

Shen Junzhuo, the genius mentor who found a way out of the apocalypse;

Liming, the leader who brought the apocalypse to an end;

Lin Weimo, the impossibly cool, powerful, and formidable leader of the resistance;

Chu Xianqing, the gentle general who perished alongside the alien race;

These great figures, who had given their lives for the advancement of interstellar civilization, were gradually forgotten.

After returning, Song Xie was still a little documentary director working for love of the craft. Before he died, he'd been arguing with people on the Star Net about whether these great figures had really existed.

Song Xie, who had watched fireworks with Shen Junzhuo,

drunk with Liming,

fought shoulder to shoulder with Lin Weimo,

and talked about the past and present with Chu Xianqing,

looked at the trove of historical records and video footage he'd brought back.

He fell into deep thought.

*

One day, an account called Witness suddenly appeared on the Star Net, verified as belonging to a documentary director.

Everyone laughed. Who watched documentaries these days?

But as soon as Martyr was released, the entire internet exploded.

[Oh my god, this is a documentary? It's so realistic! If the director said they'd transmigrated back in time and filmed it on location, I'd believe them.]

[The pioneer of the apocalypse, the lonely martyr, the mentor of all humanity. But he was just an ordinary person, too. Why did he have to bear so much? I'm sobbing!]

["He died on the eve of dawn." Aaaah, Director, you're killing me! They'd finally found a way forward, but he couldn't personally lead everyone to end the apocalypse. I hate this!!!]

[I'm crying so hard. The life we find boring was bought with the blood and tears of our predecessors. That's it, I'm going to buckle down and study.]

[We've already submitted a joint petition to the council to move the mentor's statue to the grand plaza on Imperial Capital Star.]

*

After that, Song Xie released a series of historical documentaries.

Martyr

"He died on the eve of dawn."

Dawn

"I'll stay by your side until the end of the apocalypse."

Scorching Sun, Burning Heart

"He was a nobody, yet he cut down the banners, burned the gilded banquet, tore off the nobles' masks, and set off a grand revolution."

Painting the Qilin Terrace for You

"Our names stand side by side in the history books. Even after thousands of years, nothing can separate us."

History Has You

"Am I in the history books?"

"Of course. You have an entire chapter."

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