What would you do if you found something that changed you? A piece of art, or an experience, or a choice, that could transform you into something unrecognizable to yourself? Something beyond what you might have been? Ilia is a gamer. She has been for years, and in pursuing her own escapism, has found a game talked about in online forums as the most immersive game ever, made for a cutting-edge VR console: MEAT. At first, it's exactly what was promised- a perfectly strange world of living flesh...

Raika used to be a Cultivator. She lived in a sect, fought in tournaments, and cultivated to spite the heavens, as a cultivator should. While she was never the strongest, fastest or wisest, she held it in her heart to never, ever give up, and to stand for her ideals.And then an Imperial Cultivator destroyed her soul organs and left her crippled.In a world with a sun made of flaming serpents, reality-defying entities running amok, and a timeless, all-knowing Emperor ruling all through the powe...