I Put Up Street Signs Across the City

At twenty-four, Gu Xing is the night-shift manager at the twenty-four-hour convenience store on the corner. He sleeps during the day and watches the store at night. Quiet and broke, he's the kind of person no one bothers to look at.

No one knows he has another identity: he's a Path Signer.

Everyone walking down the street will find themselves at a crossroads sooner or later. A Path Signer can create one extra road for them. The road is real, and if they make it through, they can get out. If they take a wrong turn, the Path Signer has to shoulder the consequences. Gu Xing has set four rules for himself: the sign must stand firm, he can put up no more than three a day, the Path Signer goes first, and a sign once planted cannot be taken back.

And so Su Zhao, framed by her company; a delivery rider driven to the brink by a serial bad reviewer; a factory worker who works overtime night after night... one by one, they find a road on this street that should never have existed. But every time Gu Xing saves someone, he must suffer their hardships first.

He's not the only one in the city doing this work. Some people put up signs, while others tear them down. Lu Wang of Hongmo Property is reaching for the entire street, intent on narrowing everyone's roads into dead ends, one by one. The signs Gu Xing must pull up, the debts he must repay, and the person he must find are all in that brightly lit office tower.

He's searching for the mentor who went missing a year ago, and the sign he must plant is one for this city.

The lights are still on in the dead of night, so the roads are still there.