Reborn as a Striped Shiner: From the Start, I Steal Every Angler's Bait

In his previous life, Chen Fan drowned in a lake while fishing. He was reborn as a ten-centimeter-long white-striped fish, the only one of its kind in Dongjiang Lake. Faced with the threat of being hunted by yellowcheek carp and hooked by anglers, he activated the “Run Riot System.” Steal bait without leaving a trace to earn enhancement points; drag anglers into the water to unlock skills. From barely surviving at the bottom of the food chain to tormenting humans, he devoured bait like crazy with his “Unmoving as a Mountain” talent. When silver scales, now thirty centimeters long, appeared on the water’s surface, the spit he launched at his fishing buddy, Old Chen, heralded the start of his revenge.

When viral fishing streamer He Qiang announced live that he was going to “subdue the water monster,” Chen Fan’s tail cracked across his face like a steel whip. Millions witnessed the legendary “giant fish slap.” After unlocking the “Eye of Desire,” he saw through human greed: some mortgaged their homes to buy gear, while others ignored the ban and slipped into deep water at night. Chen Fan’s evolution had already gone beyond all reason: his meter-long body bent a reinforced fishing rod on impact, he dragged three people into the water on a stormy night, and reservoir cameras captured the horrifying sight of a silver shadow fleeing into the abyss.

Humans deployed sonar and deep-water drones, and even brought in construction cranes to lock down the lake. But the ultimate quest on Chen Fan’s System panel was now flashing: [God of Freshwater]. He tore open the net pens where salmon were being raised at the bottom of Dongjiang Lake, sparking a war between the invasive species and the native fish. The wreckage of a corpse floating in the currents led to the dark secrets of a polluting corporation. When the military surrounded the lake and issued an “extermination order,” a hundred-meter wave surged up at Chen Fan’s command, and dragon-shaped golden patterns began to shimmer across his scales...