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Chapter 34 - Chapter five: the "appointment list" of fate choice

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After the door to the sealed room closed, time seemed to come to a halt.

Lin Lan stood a short distance away, holding a file folder that looked like a medical chart.

His expression was a little strange—like he was watching someone who'd barged into a kitchen and was trying to cook with a broomstick.

"You were pretty impressive back there," he said. "But you said you came to rewrite the answer... Do you know how many people have tried to change their fate in this place, only to get sent straight back to their rebirth starting point?"

Shen Yan: "By 'rebirth'... you mean?"

"The harshest punishment the Fate Editing Bureau gives to the powerless," Lin Lan shrugged.

"You get shoved all the way back to the beginning of your life—with all your memories intact. But you won't even get a single chance to pull a thread. Every 'variable channel' will be permanently sealed."

Shen Yan's heart skipped a beat.

That wasn't just failure. That was a curse.

"How many threads do I still have left to pull?"

Lin Lan flipped through the folder and pulled out a yellowed document. On it, in bold print:

> Fate Editing Bureau – Intervention Permission Form

Current intervention channel: Reservation #19735

Remaining allowed interventions: 1

Editor status: Force-frozen (requires third-party unlock)

System assessment: Low-level violator, under observation period

Shen Yan looked down at the "reservation slip" as if the jailer of fate had stamped a warning label across it that read: "Go ahead. Just try it."

"Force-frozen? What does that mean?"

Lin Lan shrugged again.

"Someone made a move on you before you got here—so the system tagged you as 'already tampered with.'

If you want to keep going, you'll have to find the one who altered you first."

"That's insane," Shen Yan muttered.

"The insane part's just getting started." Lin Lan grinned like a seasoned veteran.

"The Fate Editing Bureau currently has three special access tasks. Complete one, and you'll reactivate your permissions."

"What kind of tasks?"

Lin Lan pointed to the wall—

At some point, a red holographic projection had appeared, made up of three glowing lines:

> Fate Bureau Mission: Choose One

① Go to the Fate Discard Zone and repair an abandoned fate fragment.

② Reconstruct the life path of a reservation-holder on the verge of collapse.

③ Track down a forbidden editor who fled the Bureau and retrieve their intervention device.

"Just pick any one of the three?" Shen Yan looked up.

"Pick the one you can survive." Lin Lan raised an eyebrow.

"I chose number ②. Judging by the way I turned out, aren't you a little sorry I didn't go with ③?"

"With all your experience, why not just do all three?"

Lin Lan spread his hands.

"I'm just a temp. No lifetime warranty on destiny."

This guy... really had a way with sarcasm.

But Shen Yan suddenly smiled.

This place was suffocating.

Someone had to keep a shred of humanity alive in a place where lives were being "prewritten."

His smile faded. He looked at the three glowing lines and spoke, word by word:

"I choose number ③."

Lin Lan's head jerked up.

"You sure?"

"If my fate has already been tampered with," Shen Yan said quietly,

"then I want to meet the one who did it."

He paused.

His gaze sharpened, calm and cutting:

"And ask them, to their face—

Who the hell gave them the right?"

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[System Notice]

> Fate Choice Confirmed

Target Mission: Track the Forbidden Editor, Yi Nan

Mission Rank: S

Instance Difficulty: Evaluating…

Anticipated Scene Unlock: Bureau Grey Zone – Anomalous Archives Room

Note: This mission will influence the main storyline and the final ending.

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