Lin Qinglian was an ordinary male college student who died in a cataclysm after eldritch gods invaded Earth. When he opened his eyes, he found himself back three years before the disaster, at the very beginning of the evil gods' invasion. He was lucky enough to gain a special ability: character cards.
To save the world, he had no choice but to create one character card after another, acting the part of a savior...
From then on, a figure carrying a lantern appeared in the city's nighttime streets. He belonged to the night, was born in the shadows, and walked along the edge of death, protecting the city's peace after dark.
The captain of the Special Defense Force always thought he was an arrogant man: cold, sharp-tongued, impossible to reason with, and unwilling to cooperate with anyone.
Until, just before dawn, the arrogant living dead man perished, using his human body to keep countless vengeful spirits trapped beneath the earth.
It turned out he wasn't arrogant. No one had ever been able to understand the loneliness of someone caught between life and death.
[I am already half a corpse, barely clinging to life by sheer luck... If I can use this living corpse's life to save even one person, it'll be worth it.]
At a party filled with the play of lantern light and shadow, a graceful figure appeared one day. Sometimes she was a bewitching socialite, sometimes a dangerous and savage serpent, sometimes a gentle and refined lady of a distinguished family...
No one had ever glimpsed her true appearance. She concealed everything, blurring truth and falsehood until no one could tell them apart.
So people silently gave her the title of Witch, hoping that someday they might lift the veil of mystery around her.
But the beautiful Witch was ultimately reduced to ashes in the flames, along with the theater tainted by the evil god.
[To die in the flames: that is the Witch's fate.
Applaud me, for I shall remain forever a mystery!]
Onstage, a dazzling opera superstar sang at the top of his voice. His singing could heal all corruption.
As a singer, his beautiful voice was everything to him, and the measure of whether he had any "value."
Life was a gamble, and his musical talent was his only bargaining chip. All his life, he had performed in a false, extravagant opera.
But in the end, when faced with the malicious demands of cultists, the King of Opera drank the black sludge in the golden cup, giving up the voice he had once been so proud of to save the lives of the sacrifices behind him.
[I may never sing at the top of my voice again, but the music will never stop.
It's time to bring this grand, long-running opera to an end.]
The undead who awoke in ancient tombs, the sirens who leapt from the depths, the ferryman from the far shore, the magician who deceived himself, the journalist who stood ever vigilant for justice...
One character card after another appeared, then was torn up, waging a tiny struggle against vast outer gods.
This is the story of humanity's attempt to save the world.
[I will not ■■■ the fate you have set for me. I will ■■ destroy the book ■ and send you back to your higher dimension!]
A small and insignificant human seeks to challenge the gods. He burns his soul and breaks free of fate.
The observer's ballad has begun. My dear, fragile child, can you reclaim your destiny?
Everything is written by observers from higher dimensions.
I come, I see, I record.
- No-couple secret identity story, with a Lovecraftian setting and a few original ideas
- Dramatic performances, including breaking the fourth wall
- I will do my best to capture the despair and helplessness of a Lovecraftian world
Theme: Defying fate