by Du0
Lin Yao is a prisoner waiting to be executed. He has already accepted that his life is over. Then he has a strange dream. A voice tells him that he has been chosen for something called the Trial of the Dead. If he accepts, he will be reborn in another world with no memories and given a chance to become one of the Dead. Lin Yao doesn't understand why he was chosen. Neither does the officer who is about to execute him. After all, Lin Yao is just a prisoner—a man known as the Jester. Still, he accepts the trial. Now, with a cigarette between his fingers and the execution chair waiting for him, Lin Yao has one last question: Why did they choose him?
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 15:18 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 57% of similar stories
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beats 94% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
