Echoes of the Star Sea: Lover of the Ninth World

On his last day at Blue Star, Li Zhengjun received both a notification of his mother's critical illness and a wedding invitation from his first love. When the black cloud swallowed him, he only sneered at fate: "What else can be done?" After waking up, he became "Sample 001" of the ninth parallel world. Here, love is data that can be calculated, and sincerity is a commodity waiting to be sold. He met three women: one cut him open to study, and sealed herself into eternity at the moment she learned to love; one bloomed for him in an explosion, saying it was "the most cost-effective investment"; one embraced him with code, and finally deleted herself to fulfill him. He traveled across the stars, fought against the gods, and ran desperately to catch up with their definition of love. In the end, they discovered that every road led to the direction they left. So he stopped at the end of all roads and built a monument in the gap between time and space. There are no words on the monument, only a looping lullaby and a porthole looking at two worlds. Later generations called him "the gravekeeper of Xinghai". What he protects are all the people who can't go back, and the self who can never learn to be loved.