I traveled through time and space and became a drama queen in the harem!

A strange trial beyond fate

Lin Chen's consciousness gradually began to clear, but she found herself in an incredibly unfamiliar space. There were no stars around, no perceptible matter. A heavy, indescribable silence permeated the space, as if all this were a fabricated dream. And she herself seemed no longer the unshakable presence she once was.

In this silent void, a sound exploded like thunder, shaking the entire space. Lin Chen's soul was torn apart by this force, and the scene before him instantly became extremely distorted.

"Do you think you've transcended fate?" The voice, filled with sneer and mockery, echoed in the endless void. Lin Chen's body stiffened suddenly as she realized the voice didn't emanate from a specific entity, but rather from the very core of the universe. She had once believed she stood above fate, the master of the universe, but now she realized she was merely another manifestation of the abyss of destiny.

She felt a suffocating sensation she had never experienced before, as if the entire space was warning her. The voice rang out again, its tone tinged with a hint of ruthless indifference: "You can never escape the shackles of fate, because fate itself has never truly belonged to you."

Lin Chen's eyes snapped open, and the void before her began to twist violently, gradually transforming from a simple space into a maze filled with countless masks. Behind each mask lay countless versions of herself. She saw countless versions of herself in the past, present, and future, each with a different fate. She saw some selves who persisted in the pursuit of power, ultimately degenerating into a ruthless existence; some who chose a gentler path, ultimately dying an ordinary death; and still others who made an irreversible decision in a split second, leading to the destruction of countless lives.

"What is this?" Lin Chen's voice trembled, her consciousness seemed to be swallowed by this endless maze. She tried hard to get out of this space, but no matter how she struggled, she could not escape.

"This is your true trial." The voice sounded again, filled with coldness and majesty. "You always thought you were beyond fate, but you are not. You are just a product of another fate. You thought you were free, but you will always be a slave to fate."

Lin Chen felt a huge shock, her consciousness seemed to be compressed in an instant, all her memories and emotions were confused at this moment. Her heart began to shake violently, as if all her choices collapsed in an instant, all the pain and confusion gathered into an indescribable force, destroying her soul.

"You can't understand all this." The voice sneered. "What you think of as transcendence is merely one of the endings that was set for you. You can't change anything about your life because you never truly chose it."

Lin Chen's heart was filled with strong anger. She was unwilling to accept it! She was unwilling to accept that she was just a part of fate. She wanted to break it all and truly have freedom!

"I want to break free!" she shouted, her voice full of anger and determination.

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the void, as if some forbidden power had been unleashed. On the other side of the crack, a strange, riotous space emerged. Lin Chen saw fragments of her past and future, like countless intricate timelines interwoven together. Her every decision, every choice, every resistance, intertwined into a chaotic landscape within this strange space.

She felt an extremely powerful attraction coming from the crack, as if the crack represented some unknown power and was her only way to transcend her fate. Lin Chen rushed towards the crack without hesitation, trying to break through the space that trapped her.

However, just as she approached the crack, a powerful force suddenly pulled her back. She saw another version of herself in the radiant light—a version even more powerful than herself, emerging from the crack. That version of herself looked at her with eyes filled with profound sorrow and mockery.

"You...how could you..." Lin Chen's voice choked, "What on earth are you?"

"Me?" The figure chuckled. "I am you, the you you once gave up, the choice you couldn't accept. The freedom you pursued was nothing more than a beautiful dream. You thought you could break free from the shackles of fate, but you never truly understood that everything you struggled to break free of was only a deeper maze set for you by fate."

Lin Chen was stunned, her heart reeling from those words. She suddenly recalled every path she had taken, every time she had believed she controlled her fate, every time she had thought she had broken free. But every choice, every path, seemed to have been orchestrated by some force, and she was merely a pawn in fate's scheme.

"What...what is this?" Lin Chen's voice was choked, her heart filled with unspeakable pain and emptiness.

"This is your insurmountable fate." The figure's tone became incomparably colder. "Everything you've experienced is only to make you understand that no matter how you struggle or resist, you can never escape the shackles of fate."

Lin Chen felt an unprecedented fear. She looked behind the crack, and saw countless paths and futures she had walked, countless parallel worlds of herself silently mocking her. She realized that she was just a product of fate, and all her struggles and efforts were just traces left by the wheel of fate.

"You...can't escape," the figure whispered, "because the nature of fate is that you can never escape it."

Lin Chen's body trembled violently. She finally understood that so-called freedom was nothing but an endless illusion. Every choice she made, even every time she resisted, was part of her fate, and she could not truly escape it.

Chapter 171: Hyperdimensional Game Beyond Death