The story follows Qi Xia, a self-proclaimed swindler, as he navigates the nightmarish realm known as End Point. He has heard from others that escape can only be achieved by collecting 3, 600 round objects known as {Dào}. Given the tight deadline of just ten days, this goal appears dauntingly infeasible—yet he is left with no alternative... or is there?

Initially, Qi Xia presents himself as a lone wolf, claiming to be unfeeling and unsympathetic, regardless of age or gender. Although he engages in a few rash actions from which he learns, he eventually comes to trust a select few individuals. However, this raises questions about his true nature. What seems to be duality in his character—could it be a clever ruse all along?

She's not real, YNA is actually just a fake person in which our MC hypnotized himself to believe existed. It gets explained later in the novel--- he had done this because he needed a reason to keep himself constantly motivated, constantly reminding himself that he needed to escape. And someone had told him that there were people who would do anything in the name of love.

Regardless, there is no romantic interest in this novel. There are fans who ship certain characters, but none are cannon.

For example, in the Escape Room game, they had to collect items while avoiding the enemy. When all the items were collected, the door could be unlocked. The problem was, one of the items they had to collect was hanging on the Animal Mask People's neck itself. This didn't break the rules because the game only said 'collect items, ' not 'the items cannot be hidden.' So the participants had to use their brains and prepare to fight because they had no choice but to face the Animal Mask People head-on.

If I had to choose which game I liked the least, it would be Chengjie Chess, of which Qi Xia and Cu Tianqiu played. I didn't find it interesting. It felt kinda boring for a death match, especially for a semi-final battle. There were a lot of characters involved, but only a few were active. It focused more on 'stealing' the enemy's items than fighting one-on-one too. So what I want to say is, the game was too tame for a semi-final battle, and that was a bummer.

Oh, I do think Cu Tianqiu's past came up kinda suddenly. It felt like it was just trying to gain the readers' sympathy. I was fine with the fact that he had a girlfriend in the nightmare world (and that his girlfriend's death was the reason why he went mad), but the part about him having a brain tumour felt too sudden. The main character also had a brain tumour, but there were signs of it from early chapters; Qi Xia often got sudden headaches. So when it was revealed that he had a brain disease, the pacing was fine. But for Cu Tianqiu? It still felt forced.