After I Die This Time, I Still Have Three Lives Left

"Anomalies" and "monsters" caused the human population to fall by 99% over three hundred years.

A hundred years ago, the emergence of "superpowered people" finally turned the tide against humanity's impending extinction.

But the future remains uncertain, and the world is still a goddamn mess.

Jiang Lian is an ordinary person who thinks none of this has anything to do with her.

She only cares about three things: how much this job pays, how much that job pays, and how much the next job will pay.

And in her heart, she curses this rotten world a hundred times every day.

Until she dies.

Then she opens her eyes in an unfamiliar body.

For other people, death is the end. For her, it seems to be... the beginning of getting stronger.

*

"Better to live badly than die well?"

Jiang Lian used to think so, too.

But after dying a few times, she realizes that this world will not even give her the chance to remain blissfully ignorant.

She has to learn the truth.

About herself, about the world...

And about why she "can't die."

*

"I don't want to save the world. I just want to stop the end from coming... You understand, right?"

Jiang Lian, later known as the "Savior," gestures as she tries to explain: "It's like seeing a wilted flower by the roadside and wondering whether it'll wither away or bloom again after a rain, when someone comes along ready to crush it underfoot."

"I only stopped that foot from coming down. What the flower looks like afterward, "

Jiang Lian tilts her head and smiles. "That's none of my business."

The world is still a goddamn mess, but she is willing to stop its destruction and wait for the human friends who depend on her to change it in the end.

Theme: Let me live, then let me see what is really going on.