The Watcher at the Star Gate

Freedom comes with a price—and Ren Ye is willing to pay it. After two and a half years behind bars, a mysterious figure offers him an impossible deal: play a deadly game and walk free, or rot in his cell. The catch? The Star Gates, portals that transform ordinary humans into gods... or corpses. Years later, standing alone within a Star Gate as 2024's apocalyptic tide rises, Ren Ye gazes back at faces now blurred by time and loss. Some became legends. Others became ghosts. But the traveler keeps his eternal watch, because someone has to stand guard when the world ends.