
by Sterling Rivers
[One-Sentence Hook] I am the detective, the victim, and the crime scene—I have died 327 times, and I’m just getting started. [Full Synopsis] Ex-police captain Iron Chen wakes up in a sterile white cube with nothing but a hospital gown and a flickering blue screen: [Total Deaths: 327 | Memory Integrity: 11%] He is trapped in the "Gallery of Reminiscence," a lethal system that forces him to inhabit the final twelve hours of the deceased. To escape, he must solve their murders from the inside. But the "Dead" aren't strangers: A girl strangled by an invisible phantom in a locked room.A billionaire who drowned in a bone-dry swimming pool.A bus driver haunted by a family he sacrificed for a lethal secret. As Iron Chen dives deeper, the "Memory Contamination" begins to rot his soul. He starts smelling the peonies from a wedding fire that never happened and feeling the phantom pain of a rope around his neck. Then comes the 328th room, where he finds the ultimate horror: Every corpse in this labyrinth shares his face. Every tragedy is a fragment of his own shattered past. In a world where memories lie and death is just a reset button, Iron Chen must find the "Collectors" who are harvesting his soul—before his integrity hits 0% and he becomes just another faceless puppet in the gallery. "Welcome home, Subject 327. Let’s see which version of you survives the next crash."
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