The Last Edition Universe

Gu Yan Mu Chan, a delivery rider in the urban village, shuttles daily between油烟 and order reminders. Until one stormy day, after delivering his last order of spicy hot pot, he suddenly 'sees' the underlying code of the world—traffic light countdowns, coin flips, the outcome of the neighbor girl's confession tomorrow, all flowing before his eyes like a digital waterfall. He thinks he is the chosen one. Until blue marks appear on his arm, and in dreams someone warns, 'Look again and you'll be formatted.' Until he picks up an old notebook dropped by a fallen old man, with the inscription on the title page: 'The universe was not created; it was read.' He discovers a void in his own code—experiment 000 from a 'code recycling project' fifty years ago shares the same soul serial number as him. He might be an eye left by the creator in the mortal world. Or he might be a bug casually written by some higher existence. But he doesn't want to be an eye, nor a bug. He just wants to finish the bowl of noodles left by Aunt Wang on the rooftop of the urban village, then look up and ask: 'Have you seen enough? Next time, it's my turn to look at you.' — Description from novelcodex.org