Burning One's Family

The fire stays on because someone is always burning. When Lu Yun was sixteen, his parents were ransacked and executed for the crime of "burning value deficiency" - they had spent their whole lives practicing, but in the end they were judged to have "failed the system's blessings", and even their bones were burned and displayed in public. The young man hid in hiding for ten years just to find out the truth: Why does cultivation require rationing? Why is the road to ascension getting narrower and narrower? Why are the more talented people more likely to die young? The answer is peeled off layer by layer - ascension is never relief, but sacrifice; the end of the rationing system is a network of causal debt covering thousands of planes. Some people are silent for this, some are compromising for this, and some are burning up for this. The death of Qingmei was the first wound in his awakening; the withdrawal of his best friend was the only way for him to grow; the encounter in other worlds made him understand that rules can be questioned, prices can be renegotiated, and true freedom is the courage to rewrite "this should be so" with one's own hands.