In 2347 AD, Murong Jingci, chief of the Space and Time Bureau, restarted the "Ouroboros System" for the 1024th time. Every time she reincarnates, she can see Shangguan Qingyi smiling in her bronze pocket watch - that is the first player to break through the system blockade in 2314, and the old enemy she has loved but cannot love after three thousand years.
"You will remember me this time." Mu Rong Jingci swallowed the memory anchor capsule and stepped into Shangguan Qingyi's initial era. The system projected a countdown on her retina: 23 days of remaining life, which was the price of traveling through time and space. The silver chain around her neck hangs the crystallization of Shangguan Qingyi's ashes - at the end of the last reincarnation, the woman who always established the "Eternal Night Lighthouse" organization in the game once again chose to self-destruct at the singularity of time.
At this moment, Mu Rong Jingci was standing in front of a convenience store in the heavy rain. She had just used her ten-year lifespan to redeem the "Desire Balance" from the system, but she didn't know that this prop that could change the fate of NPCs was Jiang Wan's decoy in the future disguised as having the authority to reincarnate three thousand times. When they were facing each other with swords in the "Mobius Arena", the Tang sword that was revealed in the scene suddenly deviated from its trajectory - the Ouroboros emblem on the back of Shangguan Qingyi's neck was the totem she had carved on the core of the first-generation system.
"You always say that my lighthouse guides the lost." Shangguan Qingyi chuckled in the pool of blood, "But there is a more stubborn light in your eyes." Rong Jingci tremblingly touched the pocket watch on her chest, which contained the memories of all reincarnations in the past three thousand years: Shangguan Qingyi has been her enemy, companion, and student in 227 reincarnations, and will eventually turn into quicksand in the bronze hourglass when the countdown reaches zero.
On the final day of judgment, Murong Jingci finally cracked Shangguan Qingyi's Evernight Lighthouse code - a key consisting of 2314 dates, each number being the moment when she had extended her life for Murong Jingci. When the system popped up a bright red warning: [Space-time paradox detected, memory cleared], Mu Rongjingci stabbed the sharp blade into his own time gland.
"Now it's my turn to be your pocket watch." She held Shangguan Qingyi, who was gradually becoming transparent, and let her memory evaporate with her lifespan. The convenience store surveillance is permanently fixed at 23:59, with two figures walking opposite each other in the rain: Shangguan Qingyi in the bronze pocket watch is always walking towards dawn, and the scene in the system black box continues to run towards the eternal night. Deep in the source code of the Ouroboros system, a message that no one can read circulates - "When the 1025th crease appears on the Möbius strip, please let us redefine the encounter within the 0.0001 Second allowed by the error."
Intention: When you have 365 opportunities to correct your mistakes, can you still make the right choice? "
