Chen Qi watched the nonsense his group chat friends were spouting and, by sheer coincidence, downloaded a crude text game called New Sun.
To his astonishment, everything they said was actually true!
Amid the silence of the real world, a tide of calamities was already surging through the cracks from another world.
A flood of suffering, a war of blades, a puppet theater, a wasteland of foraging...
As the disasters grew ever more terrifying, a mysterious text game that swept across the whole world quietly descended as well.
The goals he once cherished faded like smoke and dust.
The sun would go out, the Grinning Moon would live forever. Only by reaching the highest heavens could one find a moment's peace...
On this thorn-strewn road, Chen Qi slowly looked up at the Grinning Moon hanging motionless in the night sky. He was destined to become this New Sun.
