Karmic Shackles: The Road to Redemption Across Twenty Realms

He was Su Chan, the web-fiction world's infamous “cold-hearted pen.” When his gravely ill neighbor knocked for help, he turned them away, claiming he had a deadline. When a coworker confided in him after being driven to desperation, he replied with a flat, “That's not my problem.” The deaths of two people failed to awaken his empathy. It took his own death from working through the night to send him plunging into an abyss of karma.

“Su Chan, in life you turned a blind eye to others' suffering and indirectly caused two tragedies. You are now being given a chance to atone: enter twenty worlds of karma and, as an ordinary person, help others overcome greed, desire, and obsession. Succeed, and your fragmented soul can be restored. Fail, and your soul will be scattered, with no chance of rebirth.”

With no superpowers or special privileges as a judge, all he can rely on is his meager understanding of human nature. In each world full of entanglements, he awkwardly tries to reach those consumed by obsession. From an employee who risks everything out of greed at work, to a husband swept up in obsession at home, to a student whose hatred grows from indifference at school... Every intervention forces him to confront his past self; every change helps stitch another fragment back into his broken soul.

As the layers of karmic shackles come undone, can the fates he's rewritten truly lead him out of the shadows of his indifference? At the end of this twenty-stage path to atonement, what awaits him: rebirth, or another unforeseeable cycle of cause and effect?