The scene where Captain Song confessed to Advisor Ji is enough to cover up any flaw in this book.

MC has hyperthymesia and never forgets a memory. he joins a spacetime management organization and gets sent on missions to past and future to accumulate points so that he can one day see who mu*dered his father. he gets sent on a group mission with ml's team and the mission gets hijacked and they are forced to complete four high stake missions; a zombie apocalypse, space-time repair, alternative bubble universe, and rubiks cube game. MC proves himself to the team on multiple occasions where his uses his memory and intellect to get them out of tricky situations. once all said and done, MC goes back to the past to catch his dads mu*derer, but realizes that the mu*derer is his own father from a different time. when he tries to interfere, inspectors shoot him and he dies. ML and mc's dad work together to find a way to resurrect him using gimmicks in space time, and they finally reunite.

zombie apocalypse: this was the first mission and early on in the novel and I wasnt really into it yet especially since zombie apocalypses are not really my thing, so a lot was skimmed over. but once the whole time loops started falling into place it became really engaging. I LOVED how the novel goes back to this mission near the end and it kinda tied up some of the loose ends (ie: how did they activate the black wall, what teams 4 5 6 were doing in the meantime, etc). and GOSH THEIR REUNION WAS SO SWEET!!!! truly a love that transcends space and time :')

time repairer: this was a short little mission (the calm before the storm lmao) and at first it was kinda ??? but it was cute and we got to see our couple relax a bit. that being said!! there was something I really dont understand and thats when they decided to rescue squad 12 did NO ONE think that bringing the dead back wont affect their timelines?? it was kinda shocking how the "oops" relevation came much later.

who am i: this mission really f*cked me up like here we are thinking that the main crew is finally done but lo and behold they were transported to a bubble world where the consequences of their actions in the time repairer mission comes back to bite their ass. that said it was also the most freakiest mission and I legit had goosebumps reading some of the parts because it was just straight up uncanny valley levels of creepy. ji yushi and song qinglan develop double memories following their return and realize that the captain qi from squad 12 that they saved earlier had altered their timeline bigtime and replaced their former chief wang as chief. in fact, everyone from squad 7 start to develop double memories. they figure out that theyre in a bubble world and tries to find a way to leave, but the more they act on that, the more the universe tries to stop them - literally. the people in this world behave like npcs out of a horror game and reading about hords of living brainwashed people chasing down qingyu and the squad is more terrifying than a bunch of zombies. that being said, the apocalyptic imagery was insanely well done: phantom images of another world superimposing onto another, people on the streets protesting, mass chaos, it's beautiful. they eventually figure out the key is chief wang as she was the person that underwent the most changes in the bubble world. the person with the most changes is the most unstable variable in this world. how they managed to finish the mission was a bit finicky to me (electromagnetic waves and a telephone call???) but nonetheless it was hands down my favourite arc.

rubiks cube: ok this arc felt the most like a game you'd find in an infinite flow novel and at first it feels really out of place but it still retains the space time concepts of the novel. the majority of the time ji yushi and team were mostly just trying to figure what the rules of this rubiks cube game is. at first they think that you have to join all the colors together like a traditional rubiks cube. they realize its impossible because the nature of the mission is multiplayer, and trying to coordinate movement is impossible. so they realize that its in fact more like a tetris game (!!!!) where the purpose is to collapse cubes of the same color onto each other. they reach the 'center' of the game and realize that each color is a different timeline thats been messed up due to frequent time travelling which results in tangles in time continuity. their purpose is to 'untangle' so that in the end there's only one of each color remaining. overall I found this mission ok but kinda left me with the impression of ?? and really made me think that this whole hijacking event isnt really just AI becoming self aware simply because of the complexity of the mission. like why rubiks cubes? it sounds more like the work of a human being instead.

reality: OK SO THE TEAM IS FINALLY DONE WITH THEIR MISSIONS and get to rest and we finally see ji yushi and song qinglan get together!!!! I really appreciate the author for setting aside a good chunk of the novel towards their relationship development and them just being domestic with each other :') its pretty rare in these times of life and death novels. anyways, ji yushi and song qinglan go together back in time to when ji yushis dad was mu*dered. but in a twist of events they find out that the mu*derer is actually the dad himself from a different timeline, and his purpose is to bring tianqiong back on track from deviating from space time continuity (or smt like that). but he does tell his son that he didnt really die and plans on escaping to another time in space for his research. ji yushi makes the mistake of interferring and gets shot and killed by inspectors.

OK so this part is critical to the whole novel. song qinglan decides to stay in the past and meets with ji yushis dad who then tells him a way to 'resurrect' ji yushi via loopholes in space time. basically, song qinglan needs to go to a time in the future (zombie apocalypse timeline), finish the mission, and tianqiong will automatically transfer BOTH song qinglan and still-alive ji yushi back to their original timeline. this part... makes sense on paper but it really highlights how big of a plot armour ji yushi's hyperthymesia is lol because otherwise ji yushi would be returning without his memories intact. tianqiong reveals that the reason why its doing all of this for them is because squad 7 (with ji yushis intellect and memory) is the group thats most likely to be successful in its missions. they realize that the whole time, their missions were predetermined, and by extention, ji yushi's death was predetermined as well. his dad also knew the outcome, and so helped them along their way by inventing time anchors so that the stakes could be lowered.

ngl I know the dad wasnt the best fatherly figure but he was still someone very dear to ji yushi, and I can tell that he did love his son very much but he has duties which means that his son can only ever be second place. I cried when it was revealed that the dad had been visiting his son every so often during his childhood and keeping tabs on him. its a very bittersweet ending for them though, and its hard to say if theyll ever properly reconcile : (

ML has been in love with MC for a VERY long time. Perhaps this is why I feel like ML has been drawn to MC from the beginning, probably the moment he sees MC/when he watches MC playing Tetris during class. The three cats that MC owns had been from ML. The guy that eyef*cked ML in the gay bar had been ML, too (this was barely mentioned by MC during the first arc!). I suggest you read the novel to understand further, but the thing is after their relationship was established, MC and ML traveled back to the past to find out about the 'mu*der' of MC's father, MC was killed by accident and it made ML extremely depressed. ML then had to travel to the past during the first arc to be able to meet MC again and they became the future team! There was a dialogue between Future!MC&ML that you'll find strangely familiar, haha. Seriously, everything is connected that it's astonishing. I forced my brain to remember the details, so when I saw many "what-seems-like trivial" things revealed in the end, it made me really excited. The feeling was thrilling, really.

• • ML's public confession and everyone is like "YAS, GET HIM, CAP SONG! WE SUPPORT YOU!"

• • Every scene related to ML drinking a jug of vinegar from thinking MC is a player who has three boyfriends, LOL. My favorite one so far is when MC knows ML is looking at him but purposely saying that "he misses his boyfriends." IT WAS SO HILARIOUS.

• • Every scene that features ML kabedoning MC.

• • Their first kissing scene. The author nearly wrote a whole chapter about it and it was delicious.

• • The action in "Ouroboros" arc was very thrilling. You will find yourself feeling nervous. There are lots of gore and blood, though.

• • The creepy scenes where ML holds MC's hands as they escape from thousands of strangers staring at them blankly during "Who Am I" arc. I read this part at 3am... and I don't think I want to do this again, RIP.
    
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