The Cage

Mo Jinnan woke to the sound of chanting. A dazzling sea of flowers greeted her eyes. She had entered another world, one born for her.

Every day, she livestreamed from horror-game dungeons. She saw villagers sacrifice girls in the name of the gods to satisfy their own desires, a woman driven mad in search of her beloved, and a child pushed to jump from a building by parents who insisted they were doing it “for your own good”...

Desire is a deadly blade hanging over people's heads, ready to take a life at any moment.

Mo Jinnan held her beloved, whose consciousness was fading, close. Even she had not escaped unscathed.

“Don't yearn for the moonlight's tenderness. Beneath that tenderness lies a bone-chilling cold. Thorns are born for roses, yet in the end, they die because of them. Only when the rose forsakes love and desire and enters the temple of the gods can the thorns endure. Love will be their undoing.”

The world is one great cage, and people are merely birds inside it. She, too, is nothing but its most precious canary.

But she forgot: no matter how long it is confined, a bird is still a child of the sky. She will not stay in the cage. She still longs for freedom.

But if freedom means her beloved must leave, then this cage will become our new home.

A powerful, unhinged beauty of an attacker × a cool, highly intelligent, unhinged beauty of a receiver

The game setting is inspired by The Game at Carousel, by Hu Yu Lajiao.

Content warnings:

A female-led, fast-paced unlimited-flow power fantasy with no male characters. The attacker is a bit of a simp; the receiver is rather proud and a total heartthrob. Due to illness and other circumstances, she doesn't feel much for anything and remains emotionally detached, so the romance is not very prominent.

Update schedule is unpredictable and mostly depends on my mood QWQ

Theme: Don't wait until your beloved is gone to love them. Every moment spent with them is precious.