In her previous life, Jiang Wan was a top student with severe social anxiety. Unable to say no and always giving in, she was betrayed by her “good teammates” in the battle royale game A Taste of Reality and died horribly in the very first round. Reborn, she looked at her pale, meek self in the mirror and snapped on the spot. “Act my ass. I’m done pretending!”
When the globally livestreamed horror rounds descended once more, the host told everyone to draw a negative trait as punishment. While others drew [Cowardice] and [Stupidity], Jiang Wan drew [Social Butterfly].
The viewers burst out laughing: [A social anxiety sufferer draws Social Butterfly? That’s a full stack of debuffs. She’s doomed, right?]
But while other players trembled in a haunted house, searching for clues, Jiang Wan kicked open the boss’s door, put an arm around the resentful Ghost King, and called him bro. “Your yin energy’s pretty heavy. Got kidney trouble? I know an old Chinese doctor…”
When players had to complete the mission “Deceive the Boss,” Jiang Wan simply tricked the boss into joining a pyramid scheme, and he called her godmother on the spot.
The viewers were stunned: [Okay, sure, you call that social anxiety? She’s given the entire world social anxiety!]
With her alone, Jiang Wan turned a terrifying survival game into her own Truman Show sitcom. Her fans went from mocking her to following her with fanatical devotion, all calling her “Dad Jiang.”
The mastermind behind the game looked at the “bug” on the data panel, forever unpredictable and far ahead in first place in popularity, and smiled with interest. “Now this is interesting. Crank the difficulty up to hell mode. I’ll go meet her myself.”
