A complete newbie, and my debut novel. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, so keep that in mind. It’s a long tale with a wonderful ending, so let’s savor it slowly. Please point out any mistakes. Thank you, dear readers.
After dying from working late into the night, I transmigrated into the lowliest mine slave in the Blackstone Vein. I swung a pick for ten hours every day, ate food worse than pig slop, and the overseer’s blackstone whip could make life worse than death. Then one day, I dug through to the deepest part of the vein and found a massive bronze coffin covered in runes. The moment its lid opened, an overwhelming pressure crushed the rocks around me. I dropped to my knees in terror. “Mercy, Great One!” The remnant soul of a peerlessly beautiful empress drifted out, her gaze full of disdain. “I am Liyue. I once ruled the Myriad Worlds... and now I have to rely on a lowly ant like you to escape?” She forced me to make a master-servant blood pact, unaware that I had brought along the cheeky tricks of a modern office drone and a pair of miner’s underpants that would never wear out. “This spirit ore is so low-grade, even PDD would refuse to give it a discount!” I complained as I dug. Liyue sneered. “Keep talking, and I’ll make sure you don’t even get to keep those underpants!”
