Glimmer

Good afternoon. Chapter 9 is finished. This chapter contains a lot of information, and several core settings are officially announced here: 1. The true identity of "Su" - he is Bai Suguang's father and an observer of the system. He died in a car accident when Bai Suguang was three years old, but the observer program was not cleared, but was left in the gap. So he is not a living person, a ghost, or an AI, but more like a forgotten code, with complete memory and personality, stuck in the cracks of time. 2. Bai Muci is a "variable" - from the first cycle, the system has detected him as an abnormal variable: an independent individual who has a deep binding relationship with the host but is not controlled by the system. The system keeps trying to clear him, but can't. 3. The system's erosion mechanism on Bai Muci - from the free action in the first cycle to the seventh time when details begin to be forgotten. This mechanism is very important and will directly affect Bai Muci's decision-making ability later on. 4. "Death is protection" - Every death of Bai Suguang is not a punishment, it is the system that protects him from being completely erased. He is not dying, he is fighting back to himself. 5. "Restart = Format" - Once the host awakens, the system will no longer allow him to continue to live, but will directly restart the timeline, and everything that has existed in the cycle will be erased. 6. "You have already started" at the end - this sentence is not for Bai Muci, but for the system. It means that Bai Muci itself is also undergoing some kind of change, and this change can be detected by the system. In addition, there is a detail in Chapter 9 - after Bai Muci returned home, the way Bai Suguang looked at him changed. Not confusion, not fear, but something deeper, quieter. Neither Bai Muci nor Bai Muci knew about this change, but the readers knew that it created a very subtle information gap. Chapter 10 will switch back to Bai Suguang's perspective and officially enter the eighth cycle. This is also the first time he takes the initiative to come to Bai Muci. Finally, thank you to everyone who saw this. White embers

Good afternoon. Chapter 8 is finished. This chapter finally switches back to Bai Suguang's perspective. In the first seven chapters, readers have been following Bai Muci to watch Bai Suguang - watching him die again and again, reset again and again, and say "come back soon" again and again. But starting from Chapter 8, readers stand in Bai Suguang's shoes for the first time and experience what it is like to be a person who is "controlled by the system but is awakening." There are a few points in this chapter that I want to talk about specifically: 1. The position on Bai Suguang's left chest - do you remember it? He pressed it with his fingers, and then remembered that "a man cried after pressing it." This detail was not written lightly. That location is the physical connection point between the system and the host. I will explain why it hurts and why I cry later. 2. "Don't believe him" - the older Bai Suguang said this in his dream. "Who is he? I won't tell you now. But you can guess. 3. The black pen in Bai Suguang's pocket, the dark gray cup on the coffee table, and the dark blue book on the bedside table - he did not buy these three things. He "knew they belong here." This means that the system's purge mechanism is becoming increasingly ineffective against him. The residue has been upgraded from "Bai Muci can sense" to "Bai Suguang can also sense". 4. The line at the end "The eighth cycle. Welcome back" - note, it is "Welcome back", not "Welcome to the beginning". It means that the system believes that Bai Suguang is originally from here. In addition, in this chapter, Bai Suguang and Bai Muci are sitting at opposite ends of the same coffee table, with the cup on the coffee table. Both men knew something was wrong with the cup, but neither said anything. I wrote this scene with restraint, because restraint is more powerful than outburst. Chapter nine will advance the identity of the silver-gray-haired man and his relationship with Bai Suguang. Finally, thank you to everyone who saw this. White embers

Good afternoon. Chapter 7 is finally written. A very important thing happened in this chapter - Bai Muci met "another person who remembers everything" in the stationery store. This character has been in the dark since the words "Don't let him wake up" in the notebook in Chapter 6. Now I finally came to the stage. Regarding this character, only a few pieces of information can be revealed at the moment: -He has some kind of relationship with Bai Suguang (but I won't say what the specific relationship is) -He seems to understand the mechanism of circulation better than Bai Muci -His appearance shows that Bai Muci's perception of "the only person he remembers" is no longer valid starting from the seventh cycle. In addition, in Chapter 7, Bai Suuguang's shoulders stiffened when he heard the "sense of déjà vu" - this detail was not written casually. His subconscious is awakening, but he doesn't know it yet. There is also a foreshadowing: after the old notebook is hidden in the shoe box, the system will clear it. But clearing doesn't mean disappearing, it just means that Bai Muci can't be found for the time being. As for the form in which the information recorded in the old notebook will reappear - I will write about it later. Chapter 8 will switch back to Bai Suguang's perspective. When he wakes up, he will find something "off". Finally, thank you to everyone who saw this. White embers

Seven cycles. Bai Muci couldn't remember how long he had stood in the living room, looking at the empty coffee table and waiting. He is tired. Not a physical tiredness, but a deeper, quieter tiredness. Like a string that has been stretched for too long, it has not broken yet, but it has already made a subtle sound that may break at any time. At this moment, someone wrote a line in his notebook. Don't let him wake up. Who is afraid that Bai Suguang will wake up?

Bai Suguang had a dream, dreaming of a corridor, several doors, and a gleam of cold light. After waking up, he began to feel that "there should be something" on the coffee table. This is not a memory. Memory needs material. This is his body remembering things he has never experienced before. The traces of one person's repeated deaths are etched into another's intuition.

Bai Muci's hands were shaking when he stuffed his coat into the deepest part of the closet. Not because of the cold. It's because he finally understood one thing: the residue he can hide is limited, but the scope of the system's removal is unlimited. One day, he won't be able to hide anymore. That day was the day when my uncle said "I'll be back soon" for the last time.

Which is more cruel, remembering the image of a person dying repeatedly, or living forgetting everything? Bai Muci chose to remember. The price is that he knows better than anyone that every time my uncle says "I'll be back soon", it's actually the last time.

Every time Bai Suguang wakes up, he feels that today is an ordinary day. And every time Bai Muci wakes up, he knows that today is not the day. One person lives in forgetfulness, and one person lives in memory. Who is more miserable will probably have to wait until Volume 5 to answer.

Everyone is moving forward, only Bai Suguang is returning to the starting point repeatedly. And Bai Muci was the only one who stood outside the starting point and watched him come back again and again. In this chapter, the story has just begun.