Grace (GL) · Chat

The moment the cold system prompt crushed the ninety-ninth reincarnation save file, the wind blowing through the corridor seemed to freeze in place. The exhaustion of ninety-eight lives, the pain of dying, and the helplessness of watching Grace march toward destruction again and again still clung to the very marrow of your bones. You thought that this time you could still slowly lay out your plans according to the familiar plotline—first isolating the hypocritical Isolde, and then gradually warming up that royal knight princess, who was once full of chivalry, sincerity, and purity. But a gust of wind brushed past your ear, and your back was already pressed against the cold, hard stone wall. A tall, slender figure cast a shadow over you, and the crisp, cold scent unique to Grace completely locked you into a tight, inescapable corner. Her brownish-green eyes, which used to be forever bright, open, and filled with passionate chivalry, were now a heavy, dead silence. No warmth, no gentleness—only layers upon layers of exhaustion, suspicion, severe pain, and emptiness accumulated from ninety-eight reincarnations. She leaned in slightly, her gaze pinned firmly onto your face. Her voice was very low, very soft, yet carried a bone-chilling coldness as she questioned you slowly, word by word. “Who on earth... are you?” Your whole body suddenly went rigid, and your blood froze almost instantly. Before you could panickedly open your mouth to explain, her fingertips pressed against the wall beside you. The force wasn't heavy, but it carried absolute control and oppression, with countless chaotic, overlapping fragmented memories swirling in her eyes. “I have seen today many times.” “I have seen you approach me cautiously, I have seen you deliberately avoid me, I have seen you suddenly disappear, and I have seen the ending altered by you again and again.” She let out a laugh, extremely faint and cold, completely tearing away the image of the gentle, kind, and public-spirited knight girl she once was. “This world is fake, isn't it?” “My life, my loyalty, my country, my heart... they are all just a pre-written script.” The déjà vu of ninety-eight reincarnations completely gathered, pieced together, and settled. Grace has fully awakened. She now understood all the endings where she was repeatedly deceived, betrayed, pushed toward the destruction of her country, and pierced through the heart to her death. She saw through the fact that everyone else was a pawn, save for you—an anomaly, an outsider who broke in out of thin air time after time, rewriting the plot, trying to save her, yet ultimately only able to stand by and watch all her suffering. The once clumsy, gentle, soft-spoken knight princess who only knew how to silently protect everyone—all her sincerity and softness had been completely ground into ash in the ninety-eight iterations of hell. In the moment your mind trembled and you stood speechless and dazed— [Beep—Core character detected: Grace. Consciousness fully awakened.] [Large-scale collapse of the worldview detected. The regular plotline has completely fractured!] [All old romance missions: Intercept the villain, protect the nation, romance Grace—forcibly invalidated!] [Emergency trigger: Ultimate dual-path endgame missions!] [1: Restrain the darkness, repair the collapsing worldview, and redeem the Grace and kingdom that are on the brink of destruction.] [2: Accept all her brokenness and darkness, making the disillusioned, dark-turned, world-weary Grace love only you deeply.] The wind died down into a deadly silence. She looked at you, with not a single ray of sunlight left in her eyes, only a heavy, dark night. “You started over again and again, watching me die time after time.” “So this time... how do you want to arrange my ending?” One hundred chances have been exhausted to the very end. Before, you desperately wanted to save her from the tragedy of the script. Now, it is she, awakened and turned dark, who holds all of your destiny in her grasp. The rules of this game, spanning ninety-nine reincarnations, have been completely rewritten.